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title: And he welcomed them gladly, and sent them back with new dresses and… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he welcomed them gladly, and sent them back with new dresses and jewelry to bring their mother. Who acts: doubt. 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 cla
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 33

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And he welcomed them gladly, and sent them back with new dresses and jewelry to bring their mother.

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**Who acts:** doubt · **What happens:** welcome, send back, bring · **To what, where:** grandchildren, mother

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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 (doubt), 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:pg77804:31:33
# text = And he welcomed them gladly, and sent them back with new dresses and jewelry to bring their mother.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	welcomed	welcome	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	jewelry	jewelry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **welcome** | past | doubt | grandchildren *= grandchild* |  |  |  | gladly *property* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **send back** | past | doubt *not said here* | grandchildren *= grandchild* |  |  |  | with new dresses and jewelry | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive | doubt *not said here* |  | grandchildren's mother |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mother=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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