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title: _Kah-whee-cá-me_ is what a Teé-wahn Indian always says in such a cas… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: _Kah-whee-cá-me_ is what a Teé-wahn Indian always says in such a case, instead of “Now _you_ tell a story, friend.” Who acts: Kah whee cá, you. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-seek, with its dependency 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 7

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\_Kah-whee-cá-me\_ is what a Teé-wahn Indian always says in such a case, instead of “Now \_you\_ tell a story, friend.”

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**Who acts:** Kah whee cá, you · **What happens:** be, say, tell · **To what, where:** case, story · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 Magic Hide-and-seek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kah whee cá, you), 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:pg77804:15:7
# text = _Kah-whee-cá-me_ is what a Teé-wahn Indian always says in such a case, instead of “Now _you_ tell a story, friend.”
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Kah	Kah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	whee	whee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	cá	cá	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Teé	Teé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	wahn	wahn	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	dep	_	_
16	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	appos	_	_
17	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	22	det:predet	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	29	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Kah whee cá |  |  |  |  | a Teé *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Kah whee cá *not said here* |  |  | such case |  | always *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | you | a story and friend |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |

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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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