---
title: “Now,” said Shó-kee-ah, “we will see which is more powerful; and he… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now,” said Shó-kee-ah, “we will see which is more powerful; and he that is shall have the _kot-chin-á-ka_.” Who acts: Shó kee, we, snow. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The North Wind and the South Wind, with its depende
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/21/23/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 North Wind and the South Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/21/) / 23

# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 23

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
“Now,” said Shó-kee-ah, “we will see which is more powerful; and he that is shall have the \_kot-chin-á-ka\_.”

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Shó kee, we, snow · **What happens:** say, see, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The North Wind and the South Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shó kee, we, snow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:21:23
# text = “Now,” said Shó-kee-ah, “we will see which is more powerful; and he that is shall have the _kot-chin-á-ka_.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Shó	Shó	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	kee	kee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	kot	kot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	á	á	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	ka	ka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Shó kee |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | future | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; powerful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | shall · present | snow |  |  |  |  | that *nsubj*; the chin á *obj*; have *property* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/21/22/)
- next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/21/24/)
- ↑ back to [The North Wind and the South Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/21/)

