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title: [2] The name means “Knife-laid-on-the-ground-to-play-_whib_.” — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [2] The name means “Knife-laid-on-the-ground-to-play-_whib_.” Who acts: name. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brown Story-tellers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 35

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\[2\] The name means “Knife-laid-on-the-ground-to-play-\_whib\_.”

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**Who acts:** name · **What happens:** mean, lay · **To what, where:** whib, ground · **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 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 (name), 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:pg77804:2:35
# text = [2] The name means “Knife-laid-on-the-ground-to-play-_whib_.”
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	whib	whib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | the name |  |  |  |  | 2 *discourse* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lay** *in a quote* | participle |  | whib |  | the ground |  | Knife *compound* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination |

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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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