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title: Young-Man-Who-Embraces-a-Corncob laid upon their ugly, flat heads a… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Young-Man-Who-Embraces-a-Corncob laid upon their ugly, flat heads a pinch of the sacred meal, and they ran out their tongues and licked it. Who acts: Young Man, Embraces. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Town of the Sn
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 68

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Young-Man-Who-Embraces-a-Corncob laid upon their ugly, flat heads a pinch of the sacred meal, and they ran out their tongues and licked it.

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**Who acts:** Young Man, Embraces · **What happens:** lay, run out, lick, pinch · **To what, where:** ugly flat heads, tongues, hoop, sacred meal

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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 Town of the Snake-girls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Young Man, Embraces), 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:pg77804:22:68
# text = Young-Man-Who-Embraces-a-Corncob laid upon their ugly, flat heads a pinch of the sacred meal, and they ran out their tongues and licked it.
1	Young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Embraces	embrace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Corncob	corncob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
15	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	pinch	pinch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	licked	lick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | Young Man |  |  | Embraces's ugly flat heads and a pinch of the sacred meal |  | Who *nsubj*; Embraces and a Corncob *nsubj* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon head=Destination |
| 2 | **run out** | past | Embraces *= embrace* | Embraces's tongues |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tongue=Trajectory |
| 3 | **lick** | past | Young Man *not said here* | hoop |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **pinch** |  |  | the sacred meal |  |  |  |  | nom pinch «state transitive»: of=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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