--- title: There, on the ground, were his bow and arrows, with strings and feat… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: There, on the ground, were his bow and arrows, with strings and feathers eaten away by time; and there was his pack of wood, tied with the rawhide thong, ready to be taken home. Who acts: strings. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:24:79 # text = There, on the ground, were his bow and arrows, with strings and feathers eaten away by time; and there was his pack of wood, tied with the rawhide thong, ready to be taken home. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 7 expl _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 arrows arrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 strings string NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 18 away away ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 24 expl _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 rawhide rawhide NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 thong thong NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 xcomp _ _ 40 home home ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | strings and feathers | Kahp's bow and arrows | | the ground; there | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bow=Theme | | 2 | **eat away** | participle | | strings and feathers *not said here* | | | time | away *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | past | | Kahp's pack | | | | of wood; Kahp *nmod:poss* | tree rules | | 4 | **tie** | participle | | Kahp's pack *not said here* | | | | with the rawhide thong | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with thong=Co-Patient | | 5 | **take** | to-infinitive · passive | | | | | | home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP» | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/78/) - ↑ back to [The Ants That Pushed on the Sky](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/)