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title: “Now,” said he, “the wicked Yellow-Corn-Maidens will come to congrat… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now,” said he, “the wicked Yellow-Corn-Maidens will come to congratulate you, and will pretend not to know where you were. Who acts: earth, wicked Yellow Corn Maidens, you. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Mar
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 149

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“Now,” said he, “the wicked Yellow-Corn-Maidens will come to congratulate you, and will pretend not to know where you were.

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**Who acts:** earth, wicked Yellow Corn Maidens, you · **What happens:** say, come, congratulate, pretend, not know, be · **To what, where:** you · **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 (earth, wicked Yellow Corn Maidens, you), 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:pg77804:10:151
# text = “Now,” said he, “the wicked Yellow-Corn-Maidens will come to congratulate you, and will pretend not to know where you were.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
10	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
11	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	congratulate	congratulate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | earth |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | future | the wicked Yellow Corn Maidens |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **congratulate** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the wicked Yellow Corn Maidens *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **pretend** *in a quote* | future | earth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | earth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **be** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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