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title: There are seven agèd men here, and nine bright-eyed boys--all _Islet… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: There are seven agèd men here, and nine bright-eyed boys--all _Isleteños_ (inhabitants of Isleta). Who acts: nine eyed boys. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-seek, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 17

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There are seven agèd men here, and nine bright-eyed boys--all \_Isleteños\_ (inhabitants of Isleta).

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**Who acts:** nine eyed boys · **What happens:** be

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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 (nine eyed 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:pg77804:15:17
# text = There are seven agèd men here, and nine bright-eyed boys--all _Isleteños_ (inhabitants of Isleta).
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	agèd	agèd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
10	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Isleteños	Isleteños	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | nine eyed boys |  |  | here; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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