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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 147

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When his wife told him how the witch-sisters had done, he was very angry; and that very day he made a beautiful hoop to play the \_mah-khúr\_.

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**Who acts:** wife, earth · **What happens:** tell, do, be, make, play · **To what, where:** earth, witch sisters, beautiful hoop, mah khúr · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, earth), 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:pg77804:10:149
# text = When his wife told him how the witch-sisters had done, he was very angry; and that very day he made a beautiful hoop to play the _mah-khúr_.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	hoop	hoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	mah	mah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	khúr	khúr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | earth's wife |  | earth |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | past · perfect · passive |  | the witch sisters |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | past | earth |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | past | earth | a beautiful hoop |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoop=Product |
| 5 | **play** | to-infinitive | earth *not said here* | the mah khúr |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent khúr=Theme |

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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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