--- title: “My boy, your mother has a terrible pain, and the only thing that wi… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: “My boy, your mother has a terrible pain, and the only thing that will cure her is some ice from T’hoor-p’ah-whée-ai [Lake of the Sun],[65] the water from which the sun rises.” Who acts: boy, only thing, sun. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, only thing, sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:19:39 # text = “My boy, your mother has a terrible pain, and the only thing that will cure her is some ice from T’hoor-p’ah-whée-ai [Lake of the Sun],[65] the water from which the sun rises.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 7 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 cure cure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ _ 22 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 24 T’hoor t'hoor NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 p’ah p'ah NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 whée whée NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ai ai NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 31 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 Lake Lake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 65 65 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 39 punct _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 43 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 47 obl _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 47 rises rise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | My boy and your mother | a terrible pain | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient | | 2 | **cure** *in a quote* | future | the only thing | Isleta | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Source | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the only thing | some ice | | p’ah whée ai T’hoor | | 65 and the water *appos* | tree rules | | 4 | **rise** *in a quote* | present | the sun | | | the water | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial\_Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/19/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/19/39/) - ↑ back to [The Accursed Lake](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/19/)