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title: It was high time to be thinking of new soles, for already there was… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was high time to be thinking of new soles, for already there was a wee hole in the bottom of each of his moccasins; and as for Benito, his shy little grandson, _his_ toes were all abroad. Who acts: hair, Benito. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 4

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It was high time to be thinking of new soles, for already there was a wee hole in the bottom of each of his moccasins; and as for Benito, his shy little grandson, \_his\_ toes were all abroad.

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**Who acts:** hair, Benito · **What happens:** be, think · **To what, where:** high time, bottom

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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 First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, Benito), 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:pg77804:8:4
# text = It was high time to be thinking of new soles, for already there was a wee hole in the bottom of each of his moccasins; and as for Benito, his shy little grandson, _his_ toes were all abroad.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
7	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	soles	sole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
13	already	already	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	moccasins	moccasin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Benito	Benito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
34	shy	shy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	grandson	grandson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
38	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	41	punct	_	_
41	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
42	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
43	all	all	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | hair | high time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | of new soles | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the bottom of each of Patricio's moccasins |  | for a wee hole | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | Benito |  |  |  |  | Patricio's toes *nsubj*; abroad, all *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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