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title: “Our parents would never let us come south; but to-day we came to se… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Our parents would never let us come south; but to-day we came to see if the rabbits are more numerous here than above.” Who acts: parents, us, we, rabbits. 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 it
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 45

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“Our parents would never let us come south; but to-day we came to see if the rabbits are more numerous here than above.”

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**Who acts:** parents, us, we, rabbits · **What happens:** not let, come, see, be · **To what, where:** us

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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, us, we, rabbits), 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:pg77804:15:46
# text = “Our parents would never let us come south; but to-day we came to see if the rabbits are more numerous here than above.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	south	south	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	_
25	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	above	above	ADV	RB	_	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let** *in a quote* | would | Our parents | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | south *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | past | we |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | the rabbits |  |  | here |  | numerous *property* | tree rules |

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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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