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title: And she whose meal is so well ground that it sticks to the _omate_,… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And she whose meal is so well ground that it sticks to the _omate_, she shall be the wife of Nah-chu-rú-chu!” Who acts: site, meal. 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 dependency tree an
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 24

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And she whose meal is so well ground that it sticks to the \_omate\_, she shall be the wife of Nah-chu-rú-chu!”

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**Who acts:** site, meal · **What happens:** be, stick · **To what, where:** ground, wife

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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 (site, meal), 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:pg77804:10:24
# text = And she whose meal is so well ground that it sticks to the _omate_, she shall be the wife of Nah-chu-rú-chu!”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
3	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sticks	stick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	omate	omate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	chu	chu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	rú	rú	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	chu	chu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | site | ground |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stick** | present | meal |  |  |  |  | to the omate | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | shall | site | the wife |  |  |  | of chu rú | tree rules |

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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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