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title: The Cacique told the _principales_, and they held a _junta_, and dec… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Cacique told the _principales_, and they held a _junta_, and decided to let the stranger name his own price. Who acts: Cacique, principales, stranger. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 76

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The Cacique told the \_principales\_, and they held a \_junta\_, and decided to let the stranger name his own price.

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**Who acts:** Cacique, principales, stranger · **What happens:** tell, hold, decide, let, name · **To what, where:** principales, \_ junta, stranger, own price · **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 Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cacique, principales, stranger), 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:pg77804:25:76
# text = The Cacique told the _principales_, and they held a _junta_, and decided to let the stranger name his own price.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Cacique	Cacique	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	principales	principale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	junta	junta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	name	name	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Cacique |  | the principales |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent principale=Recipient |
| 2 | **hold** | past | principales *= principale* | a \_ junta |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent junta=Theme |
| 3 | **decide** | past | the Cacique *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **let** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Cacique *not said here* | the stranger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **name** | infinitive | the stranger *not said here* | Cacique's own price |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme |

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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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