--- title: Each has its governor, its congress, its sheriffs, war-captains, and… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: Each has its governor, its congress, its sheriffs, war-captains, and other officials who are elected annually; its laws, unwritten but unalterable, which are more respected and better enforced than the laws of any American community; its permanent and very comfortable houses, and its broad fields, c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/2/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The man who married the moon, and othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/) / [The Brown Story-tellers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/2/) / 10 # The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 10 Each has its governor, its congress, its sheriffs, war-captains, and other officials who are elected annually; its laws, unwritten but unalterable, which are more respected and better enforced than the laws of any American community; its permanent and very comfortable houses, and its broad fields, confirmed first by Spain and later by patents of the United States. **Who acts:** Each · **What happens:** have, elect, be, enforce, confirm, patent · **To what, where:** governor, other officials, permanent houses, United States This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Each), 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:pg77804:2:10 # text = Each has its governor, its congress, its sheriffs, war-captains, and other officials who are elected annually; its laws, unwritten but unalterable, which are more respected and better enforced than the laws of any American community; its permanent and very comfortable houses, and its broad fields, confirmed first by Spain and later by patents of the United States. 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 2 nsubj _ _ 2 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 governor governor NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 congress congress NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 sheriffs sheriff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 captains captain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 officials official NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 22 annually annually ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 unwritten unwritten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 unalterable unalterable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 32 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 34 advmod _ _ 34 respected respected ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 37 advmod _ _ 37 enforced enforce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 conj _ _ 38 than than ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl:agent _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 44 det _ _ 43 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 community community NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ; ; PUNCT : _ 51 punct _ _ 46 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 47 permanent permanent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 49 very very ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 50 comfortable comfortable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 conj _ _ 51 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 54 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 56 nmod:poss _ _ 55 broad broad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 58 confirmed confirm VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 51 acl _ _ 59 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 58 advmod _ _ 60 by by ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 61 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 obl _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 63 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 58 advmod _ _ 64 by by ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 65 patents patent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 58 obl _ _ 66 of of ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 67 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 68 United United ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 69 amod _ _ 69 States State PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 65 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Each | size's governor and size's congress | | | | size's permanent houses and size's broad fields *parataxis* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent governor=Patient | | 2 | **elect** | present · passive | | other officials | | | | who *nsubj:pass*; annually *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | which *nsubj*; respected *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **enforce** | participle | | | | | | the laws of any American community *obl:agent*; well *property* | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **confirm** | participle | | size's permanent houses and size's broad fields *not said here* | | | | by Spain; by patents of the United States; first, late *property* | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **patent** | | | the United States | | | | | nom patent «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/2/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/2/11/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Story-tellers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/2/)