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title: But just as he reached the north, the hawk--which had become dry aft… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But just as he reached the north, the hawk--which had become dry after the short rain--caught up and passed him, saying, “We too do this to each other!” Who acts: boy, hawk, We. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Antelop
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 73

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But just as he reached the north, the hawk--which had become dry after the short rain--caught up and passed him, saying, “We too do this to each other!”

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**Who acts:** boy, hawk, We · **What happens:** reach, become, catch up, pass, say, do · **To what, where:** north, boy, this · **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 (boy, hawk, 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:pg77804:3:75
# text = But just as he reached the north, the hawk--which had become dry after the short rain--caught up and passed him, saying, “We too do this to each other!”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	too	too	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
33	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	32	obl	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | boy | the north |  |  |  | the hawk *obl* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent north=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past · perfect | the hawk |  |  |  | after the short rain | dry *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **catch up** | participle | the hawk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pass** | past | the hawk *not said here* | boy |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Trajectory |
| 5 | **say** *speech: express* | gerund | the hawk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **do** *in a quote* | present | We | this |  |  |  | to each | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=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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