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title: Then the Trues bade the boy sit down, and offered him a white _manta… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Trues bade the boy sit down, and offered him a white _manta_ (robe) for a seat; but he declined respectfully, saying that he had been taught, when in the presence of his elders, to sit on nothing save what he brought, and he sat upon his blanket and moccasins. Who acts: Trues bade, bade, pr
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 68

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Then the Trues bade the boy sit down, and offered him a white \_manta\_ (robe) for a seat; but he declined respectfully, saying that he had been taught, when in the presence of his elders, to sit on nothing save what he brought, and he sat upon his blanket and moccasins.

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**Who acts:** Trues bade, bade, presence · **What happens:** sit down, offer, decline, say, teach, sit · **To what, where:** white \_ manta, boy, bade, nothing, blanket · **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 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 (Trues bade, bade, presence), 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:pg77804:19:69
# text = Then the Trues bade the boy sit down, and offered him a white _manta_ (robe) for a seat; but he declined respectfully, saying that he had been taught, when in the presence of his elders, to sit on nothing save what he brought, and he sat upon his blanket and moccasins.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Trues	true	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	manta	manta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	declined	decline	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
28	respectfully	respectfully	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
37	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	ccomp	_	_
47	on	on	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	46	obl	_	_
49	save	save	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	48	nmod	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
57	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	moccasins	moccasin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | infinitive | Trues bade |  |  |  |  | the boy *nsubj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **offer** | past | Trues bade *not said here* | a white \_ manta | boy |  |  | for a seat; robe *parataxis* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal manta=Theme |
| 3 | **decline** | past | bade |  |  |  |  | respectfully *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | bade *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | bade |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 6 | **sit** | to-infinitive | the presence of boy's elders |  |  | nothing |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on nothing=Location |
| 7 | **bring** | past | presence |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **sit** | past | presence |  |  | boy's blanket and moccasins |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon blanket=Location |

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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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