--- title: “Now, Brother Young-Man-Who-Embraces-a-Corncob,” said the eldest sis… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: “Now, Brother Young-Man-Who-Embraces-a-Corncob,” said the eldest sister, “we want to amuse ourselves a little, so let us have a game of _mah-khúr_. Who acts: Brother Young Man, we, us. 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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 (Brother Young Man, we, us), 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:pg77804:22:25 # text = “Now, Brother Young-Man-Who-Embraces-a-Corncob,” said the eldest sister, “we want to amuse ourselves a little, so let us have a game of _mah-khúr_. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Brother Brother PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 5 Young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Man Man PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Embraces embrace NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Corncob corncob NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ” " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 amod _ _ 21 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 amuse amuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 ourselves ourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 27 obj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 34 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 39 _ _ PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 mah mah NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 khúr khúr NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Brother Young Man | | | | now | Who *nsubj*; Embraces *nsubj*; the eldest sister *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **want** *in a quote* | present | we | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **amuse** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | ourselves | | | | a little *obl:unmarked* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ourselves=Experiencer | | 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | us | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | a game of mah khúr | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Patient | 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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/26/) - ↑ back to [The Town of the Snake-girls](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/)