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title: “To-morrow, grandchildren, we will play _Nah-oo-p’ah-chée_ (hide-and… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “To-morrow, grandchildren, we will play _Nah-oo-p’ah-chée_ (hide-and-seek), and the one who is found three times by the other shall pay his life.” Who acts: we, one. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-seek
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 72

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“To-morrow, grandchildren, we will play \_Nah-oo-p’ah-chée\_ (hide-and-seek), and the one who is found three times by the other shall pay his life.”

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**Who acts:** we, one · **What happens:** play, find, pay · **To what, where:** p’ah chée \_, one, life

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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 (we, one), 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:pg77804:15:75
# text = “To-morrow, grandchildren, we will play _Nah-oo-p’ah-chée_ (hide-and-seek), and the one who is found three times by the other shall pay his life.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	oo	oo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	p’ah	p'ah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	chée	chée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	seek	seek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	obl	_	_
39	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** *in a quote* | future | we | p’ah chée \_ |  |  |  | to morrow and grandchildren | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent \_=Theme |
| 2 | **find** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the one |  |  | time | by the other | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **pay** *in a quote* | shall | the one | man's life |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset |

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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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