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title: But Kahp-too-óo-yoo handed to each an ear, and said: — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Kahp-too-óo-yoo handed to each an ear, and said: Who acts: Kahp, óo yoo. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 148

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But Kahp-too-óo-yoo handed to each an ear, and said:

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**Who acts:** Kahp, óo yoo · **What happens:** yoo, hand, say · **To what, where:** óo yoo, ear · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 Ants That Pushed on the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kahp, óo yoo), 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:pg77804:24:152
# text = But Kahp-too-óo-yoo handed to each an ear, and said:
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	Kahp	Kahp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	óo	óo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	yoo	yoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
9	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yoo** |  | Kahp |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hand** | participle |  | óo yoo *not said here* |  | each ear |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to ear=Destination |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | óo yoo |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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