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title: The boys agreed,[53] and secretly prayed to the Trues to help them--… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The boys agreed,[53] and secretly prayed to the Trues to help them--for by this time they knew that the old man and the old woman “had the bad road.” Who acts: boys, old man. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 73

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The boys agreed,\[53\] and secretly prayed to the Trues to help them--for by this time they knew that the old man and the old woman “had the bad road.”

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**Who acts:** boys, old man · **What happens:** agree, pray, help, know, have · **To what, where:** 53, boys, bad road · **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 (boys, old man), 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:pg77804:15:76
# text = The boys agreed,[53] and secretly prayed to the Trues to help them--for by this time they knew that the old man and the old woman “had the bad road.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	53	53	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Trues	true	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the boys | 53 |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pray** | past | the boys *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Trues; secretly *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | the boys *not said here* | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **know** | past | boys *= boy* |  |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | past | the old man and the old woman | the bad road |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient |

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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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