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title: And when you have proved yourself, the Cacique will bring you his th… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when you have proved yourself, the Cacique will bring you his three daughters, from whom to choose you a wife. Who acts: you, Cacique. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accursed Lake, with its dependency tree and th
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 103

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And when you have proved yourself, the Cacique will bring you his three daughters, from whom to choose you a wife.

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**Who acts:** you, Cacique · **What happens:** prove, bring, choose · **To what, where:** yourself, three daughters, you

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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 Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Cacique), 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:pg77804:19:104
# text = And when you have proved yourself, the Cacique will bring you his three daughters, from whom to choose you a wife.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	proved	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Cacique	Cacique	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | present · perfect | you | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | future | the Cacique | Cacique's three daughters | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination daughter=Theme |
| 3 | **choose** | to-infinitive | the Cacique *not said here* | you |  |  |  | whom *obj*; a wife *obj* | tree rules |

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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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