--- title: When they had gathered each a load of wood, and lashed it with rawhi… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: When they had gathered each a load of wood, and lashed it with rawhide thongs in bundles upon their shoulders, they trudged home--Kahp-too-óo-yoo carrying the deer on top of his wood. Who acts: fields, Kahp, óo yoo. 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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 (fields, Kahp, óo yoo), 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:pg77804:24:21 # text = When they had gathered each a load of wood, and lashed it with rawhide thongs in bundles upon their shoulders, they trudged home--Kahp-too-óo-yoo carrying the deer on top of his wood. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 gathered gather VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 load load NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 lashed lash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 rawhide rawhide NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 thongs thong NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 bundles bundle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 upon upon ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 trudged trudge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 25 home home ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 -- -- PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 Kahp Kahp PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 too too ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 óo óo NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 yoo yoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 34 carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 acl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 deer deer NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gather** | past · perfect · passive | | fields *= field* | | | | each load of wood *obj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary load=Theme | | 2 | **lash** | past | | load | | | | with rawhide thongs in bundles upon fields's shoulders | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with thong=Theme | | 3 | **trudge** | past | fields *= field* | | | | | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **yoo** | | Kahp | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **carry** | gerund | óo yoo *not said here* | the deer | | top of Kahp's wood | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme | 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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/22/) - ↑ back to [The Ants That Pushed on the Sky](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/)