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title: They were pretty well starved when the Spaniards came and delivered… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: They were pretty well starved when the Spaniards came and delivered the suffering Isleteños by driving off these savage neighbors. Who acts: Spaniards. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers, with its dep
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 42

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They were pretty well starved when the Spaniards came and delivered the suffering Isleteños by driving off these savage neighbors.

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**Who acts:** Spaniards · **What happens:** starve, come, deliver, drive off · **To what, where:** feelings, suffering, savage neighbors

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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 (Spaniards), 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:pg77804:32:42
# text = They were pretty well starved when the Spaniards came and delivered the suffering Isleteños by driving off these savage neighbors.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
3	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	starved	starve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Spaniards	Spaniard	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	suffering	suffering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	Isleteños	Isleteños	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
15	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **starve** | past · passive |  | feelings *= feeling* |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | the Spaniards |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **deliver** | past | the Spaniards *not said here* | the suffering |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suffering=Patient |
| 4 | **drive off** | gerund | the Spaniards *not said here* | this savage neighbors |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme neighbor=Trajectory |

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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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