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title: The boy was now big enough to use his bow and arrows so well that he… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The boy was now big enough to use his bow and arrows so well that he brought home many rabbits; and the witch-hearted Lake-Man began to plot to get him, too, out of the way. Who acts: boy, hearted Lake Man. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 36

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The boy was now big enough to use his bow and arrows so well that he brought home many rabbits; and the witch-hearted Lake-Man began to plot to get him, too, out of the way.

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**Who acts:** boy, hearted Lake Man · **What happens:** be, use, bring, begin, plot, get · **To what, where:** bow, many rabbits, boy

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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 Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, hearted Lake 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:pg77804:19:37
# text = The boy was now big enough to use his bow and arrows so well that he brought home many rabbits; and the witch-hearted Lake-Man began to plot to get him, too, out of the way.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
18	home	home	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
24	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	plot	plot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	too	too	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	out	out	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the boy |  |  |  | now | big, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | to-infinitive | the boy *not said here* | boy's bow and arrows |  |  |  | well *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Patient |
| 3 | **bring** | past | boy |  | many rabbits |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument rabbit=Destination |
| 4 | **begin** | past | the hearted Lake Man |  |  |  |  | the way *parataxis* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **plot** | to-infinitive | the hearted Lake Man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **get** | to-infinitive | the hearted Lake Man *not said here* | boy |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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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