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title: By the time the elder boy was twelve and the younger ten, they both… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: By the time the elder boy was twelve and the younger ten, they both were very expert with the little bows and arrows their father carefully made them; and already they began to bring home many rabbits when they were allowed to go a little way from home. Who acts: elder boy, boys, father. A sentence 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 28

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By the time the elder boy was twelve and the younger ten, they both were very expert with the little bows and arrows their father carefully made them; and already they began to bring home many rabbits when they were allowed to go a little way from home.

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**Who acts:** elder boy, boys, father · **What happens:** be, make, begin, bring, allow, go · **To what, where:** twelve, boys, many rabbits, little way, home

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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 (elder boy, boys, father), 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:pg77804:15:29
# text = By the time the elder boy was twelve and the younger ten, they both were very expert with the little bows and arrows their father carefully made them; and already they began to bring home many rabbits when they were allowed to go a little way from home.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	parataxis	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	nsubj	_	_
12	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	appos	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	expert	expert	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	already	already	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	home	home	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
40	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	43	advmod	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	advcl	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl:unmarked	_	_
49	from	from	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the elder boy | twelve |  |  |  | ten *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | boys *= boy* |  |  |  | time | with the little bows and arrows; expert *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past | boys's father | boys *= boy* |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product |
| 4 | **begin** | past | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **bring** | to-infinitive | boys *= boy* *not said here* |  | many rabbits |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument rabbit=Destination |
| 6 | **allow** | past · passive |  | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | boys *= boy* *not said here* | a little way |  | home |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from home=Initial\_Location |

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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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