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title: So, taking hold of the rope, they ran toward Acoma, and the Bear cam… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 103

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So, taking hold of the rope, they ran toward Acoma, and the Bear came behind them as if leaping.

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**Who acts:** Twins, Bear · **What happens:** take, run, come, leap, hold · **To what, where:** hold, Acoma, Twins, rope

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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 Hero Twins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Twins, Bear), 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:pg77804:31:104
# text = So, taking hold of the rope, they ran toward Acoma, and the Bear came behind them as if leaping.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
4	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Acoma	Acoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	leaping	leap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund | Twins *= twin* *not said here* | hold of the rope |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | past | Twins *= twin* |  |  | Acoma |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward acoma=Trajectory |
| 3 | **come** | past | the Bear | Twins *= twin* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **leap** | gerund | the Bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hold** |  |  | the rope |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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