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description: The father was killed in an attempt to return to his village for help; and starvation finally forced the mother to crawl forth by night seeking roots to eat. Who acts: starvation, mother. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, T
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 4

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The father was killed in an attempt to return to his village for help; and starvation finally forced the mother to crawl forth by night seeking roots to eat.

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**Who acts:** starvation, mother · **What happens:** kill, return, force, crawl, seek, eat · **To what, where:** father, attempt, mother, seeking roots

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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 (starvation, mother), 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:pg77804:3:4
# text = The father was killed in an attempt to return to his village for help; and starvation finally forced the mother to crawl forth by night seeking roots to eat.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	starvation	starvation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	forced	force	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	crawl	crawl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
24	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
27	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
28	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past · passive |  | the father |  | a attempt |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to father's village for help *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to village=Result |
| 3 | **force** | past | starvation | the mother |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **crawl** | to-infinitive | the mother *not said here* | seeking roots |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location root=Theme |
| 5 | **seek** | gerund |  |  |  |  | night |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the mother *not said here* | seeking roots *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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