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title: Day after day they went hunting, and more and more rabbits they kill… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Day after day they went hunting, and more and more rabbits they killed, growing always more expert. Who acts: Day, parents. 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 pragmat
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 31

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Day after day they went hunting, and more and more rabbits they killed, growing always more expert.

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**Who acts:** Day, parents · **What happens:** go, hunt, kill, grow · **To what, where:** more rabbits, more expert

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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 (Day, parents), 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:pg77804:15:32
# text = Day after day they went hunting, and more and more rabbits they killed, growing always more expert.
1	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	parataxis	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	expert	expert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Day |  |  |  | day | parents *= parent* *nsubj* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hunt** | gerund | Day *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **kill** | past | parents *= parent* | more rabbits *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** | gerund | parents *= parent* *not said here* | more expert |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location expert=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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