--- title: At one time, four hundred years ago or more, there lived in Isleta a… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: At one time, four hundred years ago or more, there lived in Isleta a very handsome youth whose name was K’oo-ah-máh-koo-hóo-oo-aí-deh--which means Young-Man-Who-Embraces-a-Corncob. Who acts: name, K’oo, aí deh, Young Man. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, K’oo, aí deh, Young Man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:22:10 # text = At one time, four hundred years ago or more, there lived in Isleta a very handsome youth whose name was K’oo-ah-máh-koo-hóo-oo-aí-deh--which means Young-Man-Who-Embraces-a-Corncob. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 compound _ _ 6 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 8 ago ago ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 12 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 13 expl _ _ 13 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Isleta Isleta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 very very ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 K’oo K'oo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ah ah INTJ UH _ 37 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 máh máh NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 koo koo NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 hóo hóo NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 oo oo NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 aí aí NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 deh deh NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 -- -- PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 parataxis _ _ 41 Young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 Man Man PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 51 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 51 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 Embraces embrace NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 51 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ SpaceAfter=No 50 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 Corncob corncob NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | | a handsome youth | | Isleta; there | time | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in isleta=Location | | 2 | **is a** | past | K’oo's name | K’oo | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **deh** | | K’oo | a handsome youth *not said here* | | | | máh koo *nsubj*; hóo *nsubj* | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | aí deh | Young Man | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | | 5 | **corncob** | | Young Man | | | | | Embraces *nsubj* | tree rules | | 6 | **name** | | K’oo | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/11/) - ↑ back to [The Town of the Snake-girls](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/)