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title: Running on the trail, he came to the lake; and there the Little-Blue… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Running on the trail, he came to the lake; and there the Little-Blue-Fox was lying on the bank, whining as if greatly excited. Who acts: moon, Blue Fox. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote, with its dependency tree
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 77

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Running on the trail, he came to the lake; and there the Little-Blue-Fox was lying on the bank, whining as if greatly excited.

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**Who acts:** moon, Blue Fox · **What happens:** run, come, there, lie, whine · **To what, where:** trail, lake, bank

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This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, Blue Fox), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:33:77
# text = Running on the trail, he came to the lake; and there the Little-Blue-Fox was lying on the bank, whining as if greatly excited.
1	Running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	there	there	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
15	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	whining	whine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	excited	excited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | gerund | moon *not said here* |  |  | the trail |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on trail=Trajectory |
| 2 | **come** | past | moon |  |  | the lake |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **there** | past | moon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lie** | past · progressive | the Blue Fox |  |  | the bank |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location |
| 5 | **whine** | gerund | the Blue Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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