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title: The Antelope Boy soon forged ahead; but Deer-foot, by his witchcraft… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Antelope Boy soon forged ahead; but Deer-foot, by his witchcraft, changed himself into a hawk and flew lightly over the lad, saying, “_We_ do this way to each other!” Who acts: Antelope Boy, We. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletche
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 54

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The Antelope Boy soon forged ahead; but Deer-foot, by his witchcraft, changed himself into a hawk and flew lightly over the lad, saying, “\_We\_ do this way to each other!”

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**Who acts:** Antelope Boy, We · **What happens:** forge, change, fly, say, do · **To what, where:** Deer foot, boy, lad, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Antelope Boy, We), 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:pg77804:3:55
# text = The Antelope Boy soon forged ahead; but Deer-foot, by his witchcraft, changed himself into a hawk and flew lightly over the lad, saying, “_We_ do this way to each other!”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Antelope	Antelope	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	forged	forge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	_	_	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
36	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
37	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:unmarked	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	35	obl	_	_
40	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forge** | past | the Antelope Boy | Deer foot and boy's witchcraft |  |  |  | ahead, soon *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **change** | past | the Antelope Boy *not said here* | boy |  |  |  | into a hawk *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into hawk=Result |
| 3 | **fly** | past | the Antelope Boy *not said here* |  |  | the lad |  | lightly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over lad=Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: express* | gerund | the Antelope Boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* |  | We | this way |  |  |  | to each | vn act-114-1 «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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