--- title: Then, dressing himself in the splendid buckskin suit the lost wife h… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: Then, dressing himself in the splendid buckskin suit the lost wife had made him, and taking in his right hand the sacred _guaje_ (rattle), he seated himself at the head of the _mantas_ and sang: Who acts: dressing, rú. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dressing, rú), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:10:133 # text = Then, dressing himself in the splendid buckskin suit the lost wife had made him, and taking in his right hand the sacred _guaje_ (rattle), he seated himself at the head of the _mantas_ and sang: 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 dressing dress VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 4 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 splendid splendid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 buckskin buckskin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 suit suit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 12 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 ccomp _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 sacred sacred ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 guaje guaje NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 18 punct _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 rattle rattle NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 seated seat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 34 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 33 obj _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 mantas manta NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 33 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dress** | gerund | | rú | | the splendid buckskin | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | | 2 | **suit** | present | dressing | | | | then | | tree rules | | 3 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | past · perfect · passive | | the lost wife | | | | rú *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Product | | 5 | **take** | gerund | dressing *not said here* | the sacred guaje | | rú's right hand | | rattle *parataxis* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent guaje=Value in hand=Location | | 6 | **seat** | past | rú | rú | | the head of the mantas | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value | | 7 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | rú *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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. - ← previous: [sentence 131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/10/131/) - next →: [sentence 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/10/133/) - ↑ back to [The Man Who Married the Moon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/10/)