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title: When he had finished rubbing and singing, he said to the Badger: — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When he had finished rubbing and singing, he said to the Badger: Who acts: Badger. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Doctor Field-mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 79

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When he had finished rubbing and singing, he said to the Badger:

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**Who acts:** Badger · **What happens:** finish, sing, say · **To what, where:** rubbing · **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 (Badger), 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:pg77804:34:81
# text = When he had finished rubbing and singing, he said to the Badger:
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
5	rubbing	rubbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · perfect | Badger | rubbing |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector rubbing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | Badger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Badger |  |  |  |  | to the Badger | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to badger=Experiencer clause=Topic |

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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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