--- title: Then he invokes all sorts of blessings on the Horned Toad, assures i… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: Then he invokes all sorts of blessings on the Horned Toad, assures it of his sincere respect and friendship, begs it to remember him with a _punta_, and lets it go. Who acts: Quáh, Toad. 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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 (Quáh, Toad), 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:pg77804:12:23 # text = Then he invokes all sorts of blessings on the Horned Toad, assures it of his sincere respect and friendship, begs it to remember him with a _punta_, and lets it go. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 invokes invoke VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 sorts sort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 blessings blessing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Horned horned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 assures assure VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 sincere sincere ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 friendship friendship NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 begs beg VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 _ _ NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 punta punta NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **invoke** | present | Quáh | all sorts of blessings on the Horned Toad | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **assure** | present | Quáh *not said here* | Toad | | | | of Quáh's sincere respect and friendship | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Recipient of respect=Topic | | 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | Quáh *not said here* | | Toad | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **remember** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Quáh *not said here* | Quáh | | | | with a \_ punta | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **let** | present | Quáh *not said here* | Toad | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | infinitive | Toad *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **sort** | | | blessings on the Horned Toad | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **respect** | | Quáh | | | | | | nom respect «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/12/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/12/24/) - ↑ back to [The Maker of the Thunder-knives](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/12/)