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title: _” (“Go!”) the two runners started toward the east like the wind. — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: _” (“Go!”) the two runners started toward the east like the wind. Who acts: two runners. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 53

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\_” (“Go!”) the two runners started toward the east like the wind.

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**Who acts:** two runners · **What happens:** go, start

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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 (two runners), 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:pg77804:3:54
# text = _” (“Go!”) the two runners started toward the east like the wind.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	runners	runner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | infinitive | the two runners *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **start** *in a quote* | past | the two runners |  |  |  |  | toward the east like the wind | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |

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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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