--- title: His father and his father’s father, and so on back for countless cen… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: His father and his father’s father, and so on back for countless centuries, have handed down these stories by telling, from generation to generation, just as Tata[4] Lorenso is telling his great-great-grandsons to-night. Who acts: father, telling. 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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 (father, telling), 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:pg77804:2:98 # text = His father and his father’s father, and so on back for countless centuries, have handed down these stories by telling, from generation to generation, just as Tata[4] Lorenso is telling his great-great-grandsons to-night. 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’s 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 countless countless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 17 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 handed hand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 19 down down ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 21 det _ _ 21 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 by by SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 csubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 generation generation NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 generation generation NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 just just ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Tata Tata PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 36 Lorenso Lorenso PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 flat _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 40 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 grandsons grandson NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 45 to to ADP IN _ 47 case _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hand down** | present · perfect | back's father and back's father's father | this stories | | back for countless centuries | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | generation | generation | | | Tata *xcomp* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent generation=Topic to generation=Recipient | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | telling | back's great great grandsons | | | night | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandson=Recipient | 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 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/2/96/) - next →: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/2/98/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Story-tellers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/2/)