The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 28

By the time the elder boy was twelve and the younger ten, they both were very expert with the little bows and arrows their father carefully made them; and already they began to bring home many rabbits when they were allowed to go a little way from home.

Who acts: elder boy, boys, father · What happens: be, make, begin, bring, allow, go · To what, where: twelve, boys, many rabbits, little way, home

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 (elder boy, boys, father), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 expert	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 twelve	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 twelve	cop
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 time	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ten	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 younger	det
11	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 ten	nsubj
12	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 twelve	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 expert	nsubj
15	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	14 they	appos
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 expert	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 expert	advmod
18	expert	expert	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 bows	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bows	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bows	amod
22	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 expert	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 arrows	cc
24	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bows	conj
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 father	nmod:poss
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	nsubj
27	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	28 made	advmod
28	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 bows	acl:relcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 made	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 began	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 began	cc
32	already	already	ADV	_	34 began	advmod
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 began	nsubj
34	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 expert	parataxis
35	to	to	PART	_	36 bring	mark
36	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 began	xcomp
37	home	home	ADV	_	36 bring	advmod
38	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 rabbits	amod
39	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 bring	obj
40	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	43 allowed	advmod
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 allowed	nsubj:pass
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 allowed	aux:pass
43	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 began	advcl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 go	mark
45	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 allowed	xcomp
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 way	det
47	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 way	amod
48	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 go	obl:unmarked
49	from	from	ADP	_	50 home	case
50	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 go	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 expert	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the elder boy	twelve				ten conj	tree rules
2	is	past	boys = boy				time	with the little bows and arrows; expert property	tree rules
3	make	past	boys's father	boys = boy				carefully property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product
4	begin	past	boys = boy						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	bring	to-infinitive	boys = boy not said here		many rabbits			home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument rabbit=Destination
6	allow	past · passive		boys = boy					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
7	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	boys = boy not said here	a little way		home			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from home=Initial_Location

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 28