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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 69

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When he had told his story, the Trues tried him, and gave him the sacred \_weer\_ to smoke--a hollow reed rammed with \_pee-en-hleh\_.

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**Who acts:** boy, Trues · **What happens:** tell, try, give, smoke, ram · **To what, where:** story, boy, hollow reed · **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 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 (boy, Trues), 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:pg77804:19:70
# text = When he had told his story, the Trues tried him, and gave him the sacred _weer_ to smoke--a hollow reed rammed with _pee-en-hleh_.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Trues	true	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	weer	wee	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	smoke	smoke	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	reed	reed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	rammed	ram	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
29	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	pee	pee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	hleh	hleh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | boy | boy's story |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 2 | **try** | past | the Trues | boy |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 3 | **give** | past | the Trues *not said here* |  | boy |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **smoke** | to-infinitive |  | a hollow reed |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **ram** | participle |  | a hollow reed *not said here* |  |  |  | with \_ pee en hleh | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |

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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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