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title: It was not long before all the country round about heard of the Ante… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was not long before all the country round about heard of the Antelope Boy and of his marvelous fleetness of foot. Who acts: pueblo. 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 the pra
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 35

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It was not long before all the country round about heard of the Antelope Boy and of his marvelous fleetness of foot.

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**Who acts:** pueblo · **What happens:** be, hear · **To what, where:** country

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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 (pueblo), 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:pg77804:3:35
# text = It was not long before all the country round about heard of the Antelope Boy and of his marvelous fleetness of foot.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	round	round	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Antelope	Antelope	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	fleetness	fleetness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | pueblo |  |  |  | before all country | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | participle |  | all country *not said here* |  |  |  | of the Antelope Boy and boy's marvelous fleetness of foot; about *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of 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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