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title: Then is the time to give your enemy-yell [war-whoop] and attack them.” — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then is the time to give your enemy-yell [war-whoop] and attack them.” Who acts: your. 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, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 65

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Then is the time to give your enemy-yell \[war-whoop\] and attack them.”

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**Who acts:** your · **What happens:** be, give, attack, yell · **To what, where:** time, enemy yell, enemies

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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 (your), 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:pg77804:12:65
# text = Then is the time to give your enemy-yell [war-whoop] and attack them.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	yell	yell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	whoop	whoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	attack	attack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the time |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | your enemy yell |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yell=Theme |
| 3 | **attack** | infinitive |  | enemies *= enemy* |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **yell** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom yell «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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