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title: So the Cum-pa-huit-la-wid-deh shot the skeleton through with an arro… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Cum-pa-huit-la-wid-deh shot the skeleton through with an arrow from the left side to the right side,[46] and took the scalp. Who acts: huit, Cum pa. 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, 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 95

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So the Cum-pa-huit-la-wid-deh shot the skeleton through with an arrow from the left side to the right side,\[46\] and took the scalp.

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**Who acts:** huit, Cum pa · **What happens:** deh, shoot, take · **To what, where:** Cum pa, skeleton, arrow, scalp

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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 (huit, Cum pa), 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:pg77804:12:95
# text = So the Cum-pa-huit-la-wid-deh shot the skeleton through with an arrow from the left side to the right side,[46] and took the scalp.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Cum	cum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	pa	pa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	huit	huit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	la	la	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	deh	deh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	acl:relcl	_	_
14	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	46	46	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	scalp	scalp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deh** |  | huit and la | the Cum pa *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shoot** | past | the Cum pa | the skeleton |  | a arrow from the left side to the right side |  | 46 *obl* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent skeleton=Theme through arrow=Destination |
| 3 | **take** | past | the Cum pa *not said here* | the scalp |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scalp=Theme |

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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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