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title: Mí-o-chin went to consult an old Spider-woman as to the best way to… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mí-o-chin went to consult an old Spider-woman as to the best way to conquer his powerful rival, and she gave him the necessary advice. Who acts: Mí, woman. 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
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 25

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Mí-o-chin went to consult an old Spider-woman as to the best way to conquer his powerful rival, and she gave him the necessary advice.

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**Who acts:** Mí, woman · **What happens:** go, consult, conquer, give · **To what, where:** old Spider woman, powerful rival, necessary advice, Mí

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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, woman), 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:pg77804:21:25
# text = Mí-o-chin went to consult an old Spider-woman as to the best way to conquer his powerful rival, and she gave him the necessary advice.
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	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	consult	consult	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	Spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	conquer	conquer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	rival	rival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Mí |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **consult** | to-infinitive | Mí *not said here* | a old Spider woman |  |  |  | as the best way | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent woman=Theme as way=Value |
| 3 | **conquer** | to-infinitive | Mí *not said here* | Mí's powerful rival |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rival=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | past | woman | the necessary advice | Mí |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient advice=Theme |

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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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