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title: The rest started off, running like the wind; but ahead of them all,… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The rest started off, running like the wind; but ahead of them all, as long as they were in sight, he saw a boy! Who acts: rest, antelopes. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Antelope Boy, with its dependency tree and th
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 17

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The rest started off, running like the wind; but ahead of them all, as long as they were in sight, he saw a boy!

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**Who acts:** rest, antelopes · **What happens:** start off, run, be, see · **To what, where:** boy

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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 Antelope Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, antelopes), 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:pg77804:3:17
# text = The rest started off, running like the wind; but ahead of them all, as long as they were in sight, he saw a boy!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start off** | past | the rest |  |  |  |  | of antelopes *= antelope*; long *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | the rest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like the wind | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | antelopes *= antelope* |  |  |  |  | as sight | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | past | rest | a boy |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus |

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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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