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title: At the village they found their anxious parents, who had come to ask… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: At the village they found their anxious parents, who had come to ask the Cacique to order all the people out to search. Who acts: boys, anxious parents, Cacique. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-seek, wi
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 112

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At the village they found their anxious parents, who had come to ask the Cacique to order all the people out to search.

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**Who acts:** boys, anxious parents, Cacique · **What happens:** find, come, ask, order, search · **To what, where:** anxious parents, village, Cacique, people

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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, anxious parents, Cacique), 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:pg77804:15:116
# text = At the village they found their anxious parents, who had come to ask the Cacique to order all the people out to search.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Cacique	cacique	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	order	order	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	out	out	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | boys *= boy* | boys's anxious parents |  | the village |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent parent=Theme at village=Asset |
| 2 | **come** | past · perfect | boys's anxious parents |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | boys's anxious parents *not said here* | the Cacique |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent cacique=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **order** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Cacique *not said here* |  | all people |  |  | out *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 5 | **search** | to-infinitive | the Cacique *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

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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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