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title: The most persistent of his admirers were two sisters who were called… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The most persistent of his admirers were two sisters who were called _Ee-eh-chóo-ri-ch’áhm-nin_--the Yellow-Corn-Maidens. Who acts: admirers. 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, with its dependen
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 18

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The most persistent of his admirers were two sisters who were called \_Ee-eh-chóo-ri-ch’áhm-nin\_--the Yellow-Corn-Maidens.

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**Who acts:** admirers · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** two sisters · **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 (admirers), 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:pg77804:10:18
# text = The most persistent of his admirers were two sisters who were called _Ee-eh-chóo-ri-ch’áhm-nin_--the Yellow-Corn-Maidens.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	persistent	persistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	admirers	admirer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Ee	ee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	chóo	chóo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	ri	RI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	ch’áhm	ch'áhm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	nin	nin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
28	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Moqui's admirers |  |  |  |  | of two sisters | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | past · passive |  | two sisters |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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