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title: At last it was to the Field-Mouse, who is the smallest of all animal… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: At last it was to the Field-Mouse, who is the smallest of all animals, and who did not wish to seem wise until all the greater ones had spoken. Who acts: kind. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Doctor Field-mouse, with its 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 42

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At last it was to the Field-Mouse, who is the smallest of all animals, and who did not wish to seem wise until all the greater ones had spoken.

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**Who acts:** kind · **What happens:** be, not wish, seem, speak · **To what, where:** last, greater ones · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Doctor Field-mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind), 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:pg77804:34:43
# text = At last it was to the Field-Mouse, who is the smallest of all animals, and who did not wish to seem wise until all the greater ones had spoken.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Field	Field	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
21	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	amod	_	_
31	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | kind |  |  | last |  | to the Field Mouse; of all animals; who *nsubj*; small *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **wish** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | all greater ones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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