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title: The Hungry Grandfathers had been almost forgotten, except as a word… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hungry Grandfathers had been almost forgotten, except as a word to change the minds of children who had about quarter of a mind to be naughty; but interest was revived by a discovery of which my venerable friend Desiderio Peralta was the hero. Who acts: children, discovery, venerable friend. A s
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 47

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The Hungry Grandfathers had been almost forgotten, except as a word to change the minds of children who had about quarter of a mind to be naughty; but interest was revived by a discovery of which my venerable friend Desiderio Peralta was the hero.

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**Who acts:** children, discovery, venerable friend · **What happens:** forget, change, have, be, revive, mind · **To what, where:** Hungry Grandfathers, minds, quarter, interest, hero, children

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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 (children, discovery, venerable friend), 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:pg77804:32:47
# text = The Hungry Grandfathers had been almost forgotten, except as a word to change the minds of children who had about quarter of a mind to be naughty; but interest was revived by a discovery of which my venerable friend Desiderio Peralta was the hero.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Grandfathers	grandfather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	except	except	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	revived	revive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	obl	_	_
39	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	venerable	venerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
42	Desiderio	Desiderio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	_
43	Peralta	Peralta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	flat	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Hungry Grandfathers |  |  |  | except a word; almost *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | to-infinitive |  | the minds of children |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | past | children | quarter of a mind |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarter=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | naughty *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **revive** | past · passive | a discovery | interest |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 6 | **is a** | past | my venerable friend | the hero |  |  |  | of a discovery | tree rules |
| 7 | **mind** |  |  | children |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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