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title: So she brought the boys safely, and then their dead mother; and, rub… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: So she brought the boys safely, and then their dead mother; and, rubbing a magic herb on the body of the latter, soon brought her to life. Who acts: Nana. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hero Twins, with its dependenc
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 17

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So she brought the boys safely, and then their dead mother; and, rubbing a magic herb on the body of the latter, soon brought her to life.

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**Who acts:** Nana · **What happens:** bring, rub · **To what, where:** boys, magic herb, body, Nana, life

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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 (Nana), 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:pg77804:31:17
# text = So she brought the boys safely, and then their dead mother; and, rubbing a magic herb on the body of the latter, soon brought her to life.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	rubbing	rub	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
27	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
28	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | Nana |  | the boys |  |  | boys's dead mother *conj*; safely *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument boy=Destination |
| 2 | **rub** | gerund |  | a magic herb |  | the body of the latter |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herb=Theme on body=Destination |
| 3 | **bring** | past | Nana *not said here* | Nana |  | life |  | soon *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to life=Destination |

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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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