--- title: They continued to devastate the village, until babies were at a prem… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: They continued to devastate the village, until babies were at a premium, and few to be had at any price; and the only way the people dared to try to circumvent them was by strategy. Who acts: men, babies, people, only way. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, babies, people, only way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:32:35 # text = They continued to devastate the village, until babies were at a premium, and few to be had at any price; and the only way the people dared to try to circumvent them was by strategy. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 devastate devastate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 until until SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 9 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 10 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 premium premium NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 xcomp _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ _ 22 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 dared dare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 circumvent circumvent VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 strategy strategy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **continue** | past | men *= man* | | | | | | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **devastate** | to-infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* | the village | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus village=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | past | babies | | | a premium | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | to-infinitive · passive | men *= man* *not said here* | | | any price | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP» | | 5 | **dare** | past | the people | the only way *not said here* | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent way=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **try** | to-infinitive | the people *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **circumvent** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the people *not said here* | men *= man* | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent they=Location | | 8 | **is** | past | the only way | | | | | by strategy | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/32/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/32/36/) - ↑ back to [The Hungry Grandfathers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/32/)