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title: _” and the old woman began to hunt, singing the hide-and-seek song: — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: _” and the old woman began to hunt, singing the hide-and-seek song: Who acts: old woman. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 79

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\_” and the old woman began to hunt, singing the hide-and-seek song:

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**Who acts:** old woman · **What happens:** begin, hunt, sing · **To what, where:** hide

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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 (old woman), 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:pg77804:15:82
# text = _” and the old woman began to hunt, singing the hide-and-seek song:
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	seek	seek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** *in a quote* | past | the old woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hunt** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the old woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | gerund | the old woman *not said here* | the hide and seek song |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hide=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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