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title: While still very young in years, they did very remarkable things; fo… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: While still very young in years, they did very remarkable things; for they had a miraculously rapid growth, and at an age when other boys were toddling about home, these Hero Twins had already become very famous hunters and warriors. Who acts: Máw, other boys, Hero Twins. A sentence of «The man who 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 37

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While still very young in years, they did very remarkable things; for they had a miraculously rapid growth, and at an age when other boys were toddling about home, these Hero Twins had already become very famous hunters and warriors.

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**Who acts:** Máw, other boys, Hero Twins · **What happens:** do, have, toddle, become · **To what, where:** remarkable things, rapid growth, age, famous hunters

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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, other boys, Hero 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:pg77804:31:37
# text = While still very young in years, they did very remarkable things; for they had a miraculously rapid growth, and at an age when other boys were toddling about home, these Hero Twins had already become very famous hunters and warriors.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	miraculously	miraculously	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	toddling	toddle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
31	about	about	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
35	Hero	Hero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Twins	Twin	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	already	already	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	parataxis	_	_
40	very	very	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	xcomp	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Máw | remarkable things |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** | past | Máw | a rapid growth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent growth=Patient |
| 3 | **toddle** | past · progressive | other boys |  |  |  | at a age | about home | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at age=Trajectory |
| 4 | **become** | past · perfect | this Hero Twins | famous hunters and warriors |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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