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title: If successful, he pulls from his blanket or his legging-garters a re… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: If successful, he pulls from his blanket or his legging-garters a red thread--no other color will do--and ties it necklace-fashion around the neck of his little prisoner. Who acts: Quáh, other color. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletch
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 22

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If successful, he pulls from his blanket or his legging-garters a red thread--no other color will do--and ties it necklace-fashion around the neck of his little prisoner.

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**Who acts:** Quáh, other color · **What happens:** pull, do, tie · **To what, where:** red thread, color, neck

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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 Maker of the Thunder-knives. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Quáh, other color), 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:pg77804:12:22
# text = If successful, he pulls from his blanket or his legging-garters a red thread--no other color will do--and ties it necklace-fashion around the neck of his little prisoner.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	legging	legging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	garters	garter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	ties	tie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	necklace	necklace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	around	around	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | present | Quáh |  |  |  |  | from Quáh's blanket or Quáh's legging garters | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from blanket=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **do** | future | no other color | a red thread *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Eventuality |
| 3 | **tie** | present | Quáh *not said here* | color |  | the neck of Quáh's little prisoner |  | necklace fashion *obj* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent it=Patient fashion=Result |

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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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