The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 14

So the boy became as one of the antelopes, and grew up among them until he was about twelve years old.

Who acts: boy · What happens: become, grow up, be

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Antelope Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 became	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 became	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 antelopes	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 antelopes	det
9	antelopes	antelope	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grew	cc
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 grew	compound:prt
14	among	among	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 grew	obl
16	until	until	SCONJ	_	22 old	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 old	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 old	cop
19	about	about	ADV	_	20 twelve	advmod
20	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 years	nummod
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 old	obl:unmarked
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grew	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the boy		as one of the antelopes	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	grow up	past	the boy not said here		among antelopes = antelope	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Location
3	is	past	boy	year	old property	tree rules

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 Antelope Boy, sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 14