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title: It was full of rabbits, and they were having great sport, when sudde… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was full of rabbits, and they were having great sport, when suddenly they heard a motherly voice calling through the woods. Who acts: bosque, rabbits, motherly voice. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 41

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It was full of rabbits, and they were having great sport, when suddenly they heard a motherly voice calling through the woods.

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**Who acts:** bosque, rabbits, motherly voice · **What happens:** be, have, hear, call · **To what, where:** great sport, motherly voice, woods · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (bosque, rabbits, motherly voice), 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:pg77804:15:42
# text = It was full of rabbits, and they were having great sport, when suddenly they heard a motherly voice calling through the woods.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
15	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	motherly	motherly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	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** | past | bosque |  |  |  |  | of rabbits; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past · progressive | rabbits *= rabbit* | great sport |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sport=Patient |
| 3 | **hear** | past | rabbits *= rabbit* | a motherly voice |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
| 4 | **call** | gerund | a motherly voice *not said here* |  |  | the woods |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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