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title: The real reason must be that they wish to save the rabbits in the so… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The real reason must be that they wish to save the rabbits in the south, and are afraid we would kill them all. Who acts: parents, we. 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 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 37

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The real reason must be that they wish to save the rabbits in the south, and are afraid we would kill them all.

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**Who acts:** parents, we · **What happens:** be, save, kill · **To what, where:** real reason, rabbits, south, parents

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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 (parents, we), 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:pg77804:15:38
# text = The real reason must be that they wish to save the rabbits in the south, and are afraid we would kill them all.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | must | parents *= parent* | the real reason *not said here* |  |  |  | wish *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **save** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | parents *= parent* *not said here* | the rabbits |  | the south |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | parents *= parent* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **kill** | would | we | parents *= parent* |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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