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title: Then they sailed out over the fields, where Tái-oh’s parents and his… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they sailed out over the fields, where Tái-oh’s parents and his sister were at work; and all the three began to cry, and went home in great sorrow. Who acts: people, Tái parents, three. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui\[72\] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 28

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Then they sailed out over the fields, where Tái-oh’s parents and his sister were at work; and all the three began to cry, and went home in great sorrow.

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**Who acts:** people, Tái parents, three · **What happens:** sail out, be, begin, cry, go · **To what, where:** fields, work, great sorrow

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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 Moqui\[72\] Boy and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Tái parents, three), 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:pg77804:20:28
# text = Then they sailed out over the fields, where Tái-oh’s parents and his sister were at work; and all the three began to cry, and went home in great sorrow.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
10	Tái	Tái	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nsubj	_	_
26	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
32	home	home	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail out** | past | people |  |  | the fields  Tái parents and boy's sister | then | out *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over field=Trajectory |
| 2 | **be** | past | Tái parents and boy's sister *not said here* |  |  | work |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at work=Location |
| 3 | **begin** | past | all three |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | all three *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** | past | people *not said here* |  |  | great sorrow |  | home *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in sorrow=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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