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title: While preparations were going on in the village, the antelopes in so… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: While preparations were going on in the village, the antelopes in some way heard of the intended hunt and its purpose. Who acts: preparations, antelopes, way. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Antelope Boy, with its dep
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 22

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While preparations were going on in the village, the antelopes in some way heard of the intended hunt and its purpose.

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**Who acts:** preparations, antelopes, way · **What happens:** go on, hear, intend, purpose · **To what, where:** village

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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 (preparations, antelopes, way), 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:pg77804:3:22
# text = While preparations were going on in the village, the antelopes in some way heard of the intended hunt and its purpose.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	preparations	preparation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	antelopes	antelope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past · progressive | preparations |  |  | the village |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in village=Location |
| 2 | **hear** | past | the antelopes in some way |  |  |  |  | of the intended hunt and way's purpose | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of hunt=Stimulus |
| 3 | **intend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **purpose** |  | way |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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