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title: The fair _kot-chin-á-ka_ (chief’s daughter), bending at a pool in th… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The fair _kot-chin-á-ka_ (chief’s daughter), bending at a pool in the great rock to fill her water-jar, saw and admired him as he came striding proudly to the village; and he did not fail to notice the dusky beauty. Who acts: man. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 7

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The fair \_kot-chin-á-ka\_ (chief’s daughter), bending at a pool in the great rock to fill her water-jar, saw and admired him as he came striding proudly to the village; and he did not fail to notice the dusky beauty.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** bend, fill, see, admire, come, stride · **To what, where:** pool, water jar, man, village, dusky beauty, fair kot

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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 (man), 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:pg77804:21:7
# text = The fair _kot-chin-á-ka_ (chief’s daughter), bending at a pool in the great rock to fill her water-jar, saw and admired him as he came striding proudly to the village; and he did not fail to notice the dusky beauty.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	kot	kot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	á	á	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	ka	ka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	admired	admire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
40	striding	stride	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	xcomp	_	_
41	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
48	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	appos	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	xcomp	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	dusky	dusky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | gerund |  |  |  | a pool in the great rock |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at pool=Location |
| 2 | **fill** | to-infinitive |  | \_'s water jar |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent jar=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **admire** | past |  | man |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 5 | **come** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **stride** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  | the village |  | proudly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to village=Destination |
| 7 | **not** **fail** | past · do-support | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 8 | **notice** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | the dusky beauty |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus |

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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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