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title: The Cacique demurred, for this was the best hunter in all the pueblo… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Cacique demurred, for this was the best hunter in all the pueblo,[63] but at last consented and gave him his blessing. Who acts: Cacique, this. 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 tr
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 28

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The Cacique demurred, for this was the best hunter in all the pueblo,\[63\] but at last consented and gave him his blessing.

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**Who acts:** Cacique, this · **What happens:** demur, be, consent, give, bless · **To what, where:** 63, pueblo, last, blessing, Cacique

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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 (Cacique, this), 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:pg77804:19:29
# text = The Cacique demurred, for this was the best hunter in all the pueblo,[63] but at last consented and gave him his blessing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Cacique	Cacique	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	demurred	demur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pueblo	pueblo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	63	63	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	_
22	consented	consent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demur** | past | the Cacique | 63 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | this |  |  | all pueblo |  | for the best hunter | tree rules |
| 3 | **consent** | participle | the Cacique *not said here* |  |  | last |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | past | the Cacique *not said here* | Cacique's blessing | Cacique |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient blessing=Theme |
| 5 | **bless** |  | Cacique |  |  |  |  |  | nom blessing «act transitive»: 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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