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title: By this time Máw-Sahv and Oó-yah-wee were sizable boys, and the moth… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: By this time Máw-Sahv and Oó-yah-wee were sizable boys, and the mother started homeward with them. Who acts: Máw, mother. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hero Twins, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 18

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By this time Máw-Sahv and Oó-yah-wee were sizable boys, and the mother started homeward with them.

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**Who acts:** Máw, mother · **What happens:** be, start · **To what, where:** sizable boys, homeward

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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 (Máw, mother), 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:pg77804:31:18
# text = By this time Máw-Sahv and Oó-yah-wee were sizable boys, and the mother started homeward with them.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	Máw	Máw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Sahv	Sahv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	Oó	Oó	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	yah	yah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	wee	wee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	sizable	sizable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
21	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Máw and Oó yah wee | sizable boys |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **start** | past | the mother | homeward |  |  |  | with boys *= boy* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent homeward=Eventuality with they=Subeventuality |

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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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