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title: My little _amigos_ in Isleta and the other Pueblo towns--for they ar… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: My little _amigos_ in Isleta and the other Pueblo towns--for they are my friends in all--are never spoiled; but neither are they punished much. Who acts: amigos, neither. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfa
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 3

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My little \_amigos\_ in Isleta and the other Pueblo towns--for they are my friends in all--are never spoiled; but neither are they punished much.

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**Who acts:** amigos, neither · **What happens:** be, not spoil · **To what, where:** all, little \_ amigos

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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 Hungry Grandfathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (amigos, neither), 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:pg77804:32:3
# text = My little _amigos_ in Isleta and the other Pueblo towns--for they are my friends in all--are never spoiled; but neither are they punished much.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	amigos	amigo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Pueblo	pueblo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	spoiled	spoil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	punished	punish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
31	much	much	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | amigos *= amigo* |  |  | all |  | for my friends; my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **spoil** | present · passive |  | My little \_ amigos in Isleta and the other Pueblo towns |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | neither |  |  |  |  | amigos *= amigo* *nsubj*; punish *property* | tree rules |

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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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