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title: By this time the Fawns had come to where two Indian boys were playin… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: By this time the Fawns had come to where two Indian boys were playing _k’wah-t’hím_[95] with their bows and arrows, and said to them: Who acts: Fawns, two Indian boys. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Revenge of the Fa
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 86

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By this time the Fawns had come to where two Indian boys were playing \_k’wah-t’hím\_\[95\] with their bows and arrows, and said to them:

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**Who acts:** Fawns, two Indian boys · **What happens:** come, play, say · **To what, where:** t’hím, fawns · **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 Revenge of the Fawns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fawns, two Indian boys), 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:pg77804:27:88
# text = By this time the Fawns had come to where two Indian boys were playing _k’wah-t’hím_[95] with their bows and arrows, and said to them:
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Fawns	fawn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	k’wah	k'wah	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	t’hím	t'hím	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	95	95	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · perfect | the Fawns |  |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | past · progressive | two Indian boys | t’hím |  |  |  | with fawns's bows and arrows; 95 *parataxis* | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with bow=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Fawns *not said here* |  | fawns *= fawn* |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |

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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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