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title: When these boys grow up, they will tell these stories to their sons… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When these boys grow up, they will tell these stories to their sons and grandsons; and so the legends will pass on and on, so long as there shall be a Tée-wahn Indian left in all New Mexico. Who acts: boys, legends. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» b
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 98

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When these boys grow up, they will tell these stories to their sons and grandsons; and so the legends will pass on and on, so long as there shall be a Tée-wahn Indian left in all New Mexico.

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**Who acts:** boys, legends · **What happens:** grow up, tell, pass on, be, leave · **To what, where:** stories, sons, New Mexico · **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 Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, legends), 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:pg77804:2:99
# text = When these boys grow up, they will tell these stories to their sons and grandsons; and so the legends will pass on and on, so long as there shall be a Tée-wahn Indian left in all New Mexico.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	grandsons	grandson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	on	on	ADV	RB	_	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	33	expl	_	_
32	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	Tée	Tée	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	wahn	wahn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
38	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	appos	_	_
39	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	det	_	_
42	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | present | this boys |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | boys *= boy* | this stories | stories's sons and grandsons |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to son=Recipient |
| 3 | **pass on** | future | the legends |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | in all New Mexico *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in mexico=Result |

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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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