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title: Then, in the naïve custom of the Tée-wahn, bashful fingers worked wo… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, in the naïve custom of the Tée-wahn, bashful fingers worked wondrous fringed shirts of buckskin, or gay awl-sheaths, which found their way to his house by unknown messengers--each as much as to say, “She who made this is yours, if you will have her.” Who acts: bashful fingers, gay awl sheaths,
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 16

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Then, in the naïve custom of the Tée-wahn, bashful fingers worked wondrous fringed shirts of buckskin, or gay awl-sheaths, which found their way to his house by unknown messengers--each as much as to say, “She who made this is yours, if you will have her.”

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**Who acts:** bashful fingers, gay awl sheaths, wahn, this, you · **What happens:** work, fringe, find, say, make, be · **To what, where:** wondrous fringed shirts, naïve custom, way, yours, wahn · **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 (bashful fingers, gay awl sheaths, wahn, this), 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:pg77804:10:16
# text = Then, in the naïve custom of the Tée-wahn, bashful fingers worked wondrous fringed shirts of buckskin, or gay awl-sheaths, which found their way to his house by unknown messengers--each as much as to say, “She who made this is yours, if you will have her.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	naïve	naïve	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Tée	Tée	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	wahn	wahn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	bashful	bashful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	fringed	fringe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	shirts	shirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	buckskin	buckskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	awl	awl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	sheaths	sheath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	det	_	_
40	as	as	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
42	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
49	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
50	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	52	nsubj	_	_
51	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
52	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
55	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
56	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
58	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	57	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past | bashful fingers | wondrous fringed shirts of buckskin |  | the naïve custom of the Tée and wahn | then | gay awl sheaths *obl* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fringe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | past | gay awl sheaths | fingers's way |  |  |  | to Moqui's house; by unknown messengers | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | bashful fingers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | past | wahn |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this | yours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | you | wahn |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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