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title: And when parents were forced to go away and leave the babies behind,… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when parents were forced to go away and leave the babies behind, the poor young ones were inclosed in their safe but gloomy prisons, and there in darkness and silence had to await the parental home-coming. Who acts: parents, silence. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 39

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And when parents were forced to go away and leave the babies behind, the poor young ones were inclosed in their safe but gloomy prisons, and there in darkness and silence had to await the parental home-coming.

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**Who acts:** parents, silence · **What happens:** force, go away, leave, inclose, have, await · **To what, where:** parents, babies, poor young ones, safe prisons

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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 (parents, silence), 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:pg77804:32:39
# text = And when parents were forced to go away and leave the babies behind, the poor young ones were inclosed in their safe but gloomy prisons, and there in darkness and silence had to await the parental home-coming.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	inclosed	inclose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
23	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	prisons	prison	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	await	await	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
38	parental	parental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
39	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **force** | past · passive |  | parents |  | there |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go away** | to-infinitive | parents *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | infinitive | parents *not said here* | the babies |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme |
| 4 | **inclose** | past · passive |  | the poor young ones |  | parents's safe prisons |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | silence |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **await** | to-infinitive | silence *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **come** | gerund | silence *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *compound* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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