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title: He started out to find who had stolen it; and passing by Acoma he he… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: He started out to find who had stolen it; and passing by Acoma he heard the thunder as the Hero Twins were playing ball with the lightning. Who acts: wrath, Hero Twins. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hero Twins, with
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 85

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He started out to find who had stolen it; and passing by Acoma he heard the thunder as the Hero Twins were playing ball with the lightning.

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**Who acts:** wrath, Hero Twins · **What happens:** start out, find, steal, pass, hear, play · **To what, where:** occasion, thunder, ball · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wrath, 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:pg77804:31:85
# text = He started out to find who had stolen it; and passing by Acoma he heard the thunder as the Hero Twins were playing ball with the lightning.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	csubj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Acoma	Acoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Hero	Hero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Twins	Twin	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
25	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start out** | past | wrath |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | wrath *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **steal** | past · perfect |  | occasion |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 4 | **pass** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | by Acoma | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by acoma=Location |
| 5 | **hear** | past | wrath | the thunder |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thunder=Stimulus |
| 6 | **play** | past · progressive | the Hero Twins | ball |  |  |  | with the lightning | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent ball=Theme with lightning=Co-Agent |

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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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