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title: The Twins did as they were bidden, and presently came to Acoma and f… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Twins did as they were bidden, and presently came to Acoma and found the house of the old Cacique. Who acts: Twins. 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 every 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 24

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The Twins did as they were bidden, and presently came to Acoma and found the house of the old Cacique.

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**Who acts:** Twins · **What happens:** do, bid, come, find · **To what, where:** Twins, Acoma, house

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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), 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:pg77804:31:24
# text = The Twins did as they were bidden, and presently came to Acoma and found the house of the old Cacique.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Twins	Twin	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	bidden	bid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Acoma	Acoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Cacique	Cacique	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | the Twins |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bid** | past · passive |  | Twins *= twin* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past |  |  |  | Acoma |  | presently *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to acoma=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **find** | past |  | the house of the old Cacique |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic |

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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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