--- title: The Moon came and put upon their heads a little of the pollen of the… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: The Moon came and put upon their heads a little of the pollen of the corn-blossom (still used by Pueblo snake-charmers) to tame them, and a pinch of the sacred meal for their food. Who acts: Moon. 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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 (Moon), 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:pg77804:10:162 # text = The Moon came and put upon their heads a little of the pollen of the corn-blossom (still used by Pueblo snake-charmers) to tame them, and a pinch of the sacred meal for their food. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 6 upon upon ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 blossom blossom NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 still still ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 Pueblo Pueblo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 24 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 charmers charmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 tame tame VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 pinch pinch NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 sacred sacred ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the Moon | | | | | for sisters's food a pinch of the sacred meal | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **put** | participle | the Moon *not said here* | | | sisters's heads | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon head=Destination | | 3 | **use** | participle | | the corn blossom *not said here* | | | still | by Pueblo snake charmers | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tame** | to-infinitive | | sisters *= sister* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 5 | **pinch** | | | the sacred meal | | | | | nom pinch «state transitive»: of=patient | 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 159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/10/159/) - next →: [sentence 161](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/10/161/) - ↑ back to [The Man Who Married the Moon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/10/)