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title: To care better for the children they moved to a little ranch some di… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: To care better for the children they moved to a little ranch some distance from the village, and there taught their two little sons all they could. Who acts: children. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-se
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 25

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To care better for the children they moved to a little ranch some distance from the village, and there taught their two little sons all they could.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** care, move, teach · **To what, where:** little ranch, two little sons

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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 (children), 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:pg77804:15:26
# text = To care better for the children they moved to a little ranch some distance from the village, and there taught their two little sons all they could.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
3	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ranch	ranch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
26	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **care** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the children; well *property* | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for child=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | past | children *= child* |  |  | a little ranch |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to ranch=Trajectory |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | children *= child* *not said here* |  | children's two little sons | there |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient |

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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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