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title: Once, long ago, the _ta-pó-pe_ (governor) of Acoma had a beautiful d… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Once, long ago, the _ta-pó-pe_ (governor) of Acoma had a beautiful daughter, for whom many of the young men had asked in vain, for she would have none of them. Who acts: pe _, _. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The North 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 4

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Once, long ago, the \_ta-pó-pe\_ (governor) of Acoma had a beautiful daughter, for whom many of the young men had asked in vain, for she would have none of them.

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**Who acts:** pe \_, \_ · **What happens:** have, ask · **To what, where:** beautiful daughter, many, vain, none

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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 (pe \_, \_), 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:pg77804:21:4
# text = Once, long ago, the _ta-pó-pe_ (governor) of Acoma had a beautiful daughter, for whom many of the young men had asked in vain, for she would have none of them.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	ta	ta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	pó	pó	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	pe	pe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Acoma	Acoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	obl	_	_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	parataxis	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
40	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	39	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the pe \_ of Acoma | a beautiful daughter |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · perfect · passive |  | many of the young men |  | vain |  | whom *obl* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **have** | would | \_ | none of Acoma |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient |

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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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