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title: For if the boys had not been smoking when they had not freedom to, t… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: For if the boys had not been smoking when they had not freedom to, their grandfather would not have sent them, and all that trouble would not have come. Who acts: boys. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Maker of the Thu
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 105

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For if the boys had not been smoking when they had not freedom to, their grandfather would not have sent them, and all that trouble would not have come.

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**Who acts:** boys · **What happens:** not smoke, have, not send, not come · **To what, where:** freedom, grandfather, trouble

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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 Maker of the Thunder-knives. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys), 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:pg77804:12:105
# text = For if the boys had not been smoking when they had not freedom to, their grandfather would not have sent them, and all that trouble would not have come.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
8	smoking	smoke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
21	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux	_	_
31	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **smoke** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · progressive | the boys |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | boys *= boy* | freedom |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **send** | would · perfect · passive |  | boys's grandfather |  |  |  | boys *= boy* *obj* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination they=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **come** | would · perfect |  | all trouble |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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