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title: Taking their bows and arrows, the boys--now young men, for the four… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking their bows and arrows, the boys--now young men, for the four “days” they had been with the witches were really four years--returned home. Who acts: boys, Taking. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-s
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 111

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Taking their bows and arrows, the boys--now young men, for the four “days” they had been with the witches were really four years--returned home.

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**Who acts:** boys, Taking · **What happens:** take, be, return · **To what, where:** bows

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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 Magic Hide-and-seek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, Taking), 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:pg77804:15:115
# text = Taking their bows and arrows, the boys--now young men, for the four “days” they had been with the witches were really four years--returned home.
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	csubj	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	cop	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	really	really	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	home	home	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  | boys's bows and arrows and the boys |  |  | day | young men *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | boys *= boy* |  |  |  | with four years | the witches *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **return** | past | Taking |  |  |  |  | home *property* | 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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