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title: I may add that the game of hide-and-seek is still played by my dusky… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: I may add that the game of hide-and-seek is still played by my dusky little neighbors, the Pueblo children, and the searching-song is still sung by them, exactly as the boys and the old witch played and sang--but of course without their magical talent at hiding. Who acts: I, dusky little neighbors, 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 122

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I may add that the game of hide-and-seek is still played by my dusky little neighbors, the Pueblo children, and the searching-song is still sung by them, exactly as the boys and the old witch played and sang--but of course without their magical talent at hiding.

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**Who acts:** I, dusky little neighbors, children, old witch, magical talent · **What happens:** add, play, sing, hide · **To what, where:** game, searching song

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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 (I, dusky little neighbors, children, old witch), 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:pg77804:15:127
# text = I may add that the game of hide-and-seek is still played by my dusky little neighbors, the Pueblo children, and the searching-song is still sung by them, exactly as the boys and the old witch played and sang--but of course without their magical talent at hiding.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	seek	seek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	dusky	dusky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Pueblo	Pueblo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	searching	searching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	still	still	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	vocative	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
51	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	fixed	_	_
52	without	without	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
54	magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	talent	talent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
56	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
57	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	55	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | may | I |  |  |  |  | children's magical talent *parataxis* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **play** | present · passive | my dusky little neighbors and the Pueblo children | the game of hide seek |  |  | still |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | present · passive | children *= child* | the searching song |  |  | still | the boys *vocative* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme |
| 4 | **play** | past | the old witch |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the old witch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **hide** | gerund | children's magical talent *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: 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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