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title: They got their mothers to give them some tortillas,[44] and with thi… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: They got their mothers to give them some tortillas,[44] and with this lunch they started for the Bosque (a 10,000-foot peak twenty miles east of Isleta). Who acts: boys, mothers. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Maker 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 48

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They got their mothers to give them some tortillas,\[44\] and with this lunch they started for the Bosque (a 10,000-foot peak twenty miles east of Isleta).

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**Who acts:** boys, mothers · **What happens:** get, give, start · **To what, where:** mothers, tortillas, boys

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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, mothers), 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:pg77804:12:48
# text = They got their mothers to give them some tortillas,[44] and with this lunch they started for the Bosque (a 10,000-foot peak twenty miles east of Isleta).
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	tortillas	tortilla	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	44	44	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Bosque	Bosque	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
29	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	east	east	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | boys *= boy* | boys's mothers |  |  |  | 44 *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | boys's mothers *not said here* | some tortillas | boys *= boy* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient tortilla=Theme |
| 3 | **start** | past | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  | with this lunch; for the Bosque | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with lunch=Subeventuality |

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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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