The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 111

Taking their bows and arrows, the boys--now young men, for the four “days” they had been with the witches were really four years--returned home.

Who acts: boys, Taking · What happens: take, be, return · To what, where: bows

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-seek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, Taking), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 returned	csubj
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bows	nmod:poss
3	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Taking	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 arrows	cc
5	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bows	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 boys	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boys	det
8	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bows	conj
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 men	punct
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 men	advmod
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 men	amod
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Taking	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 days	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	18 days	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 days	det
16	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 days	nummod
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 days	punct
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Taking	obl
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 days	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 years	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 years	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 years	cop
23	with	with	ADP	_	29 years	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 witches	det
25	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 years	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 years	cop
27	really	really	ADV	_	29 years	advmod
28	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 years	nummod
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Taking	parataxis
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	1 Taking	punct
31	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	home	home	ADV	_	31 returned	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		boys's bows and arrows and the boys	day	young men obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme
2	is	past · perfect	boys = boy		with four years	the witches nsubj	tree rules
3	return	past	Taking			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 111

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 111