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title: Mí-o-chin accepted the challenge, and it was agreed that the contest… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mí-o-chin accepted the challenge, and it was agreed that the contest should begin on the morrow and last three days. Who acts: Mí, contest. 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 depen
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 24

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Mí-o-chin accepted the challenge, and it was agreed that the contest should begin on the morrow and last three days.

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**Who acts:** Mí, contest · **What happens:** accept, agree, begin · **To what, where:** challenge, morrow

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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 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 (Mí, contest), 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:pg77804:21:24
# text = Mí-o-chin accepted the challenge, and it was agreed that the contest should begin on the morrow and last three days.
1	Mí	Mí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	challenge	challenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	contest	contest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	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 | **accept** | past | Mí | the challenge |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past · passive |  | challenge |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **begin** *not said to happen* | should | the contest |  |  | the morrow and last three days |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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