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title: A flawless ear of pure white corn (a type of fertility or motherhood… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: A flawless ear of pure white corn (a type of fertility or motherhood) is tricked out with a downy mass of snow-white feathers, and hung with ornaments of silver, coral, and the precious turquoise. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 14

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A flawless ear of pure white corn (a type of fertility or motherhood) is tricked out with a downy mass of snow-white feathers, and hung with ornaments of silver, coral, and the precious turquoise.

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**What happens:** trick out, hang, type · **To what, where:** flawless ear, precious turquoise, fertility

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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 Mother Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg77804:11:14
# text = A flawless ear of pure white corn (a type of fertility or motherhood) is tricked out with a downy mass of snow-white feathers, and hung with ornaments of silver, coral, and the precious turquoise.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	flawless	flawless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	fertility	fertility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	motherhood	motherhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	tricked	trick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	downy	downy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	parataxis	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	turquoise	turquoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick out** | present · passive |  | a flawless ear of pure white corn |  |  |  | with a downy mass of snow white feathers | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **hang** | participle |  | the precious turquoise |  |  |  | with ornaments of silver and coral | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **type** |  |  | fertility |  |  |  |  | nom type «cognition transitive»: of=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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