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title: Then the Cum-pah-whít-la-wen[91] went running with their bows and ar… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Cum-pah-whít-la-wen[91] went running with their bows and arrows, and brought the girl; and she was punished as are they that have the evil road. Who acts: Cum pah, la wen, Arrow. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, T
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 117

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Then the Cum-pah-whít-la-wen\[91\] went running with their bows and arrows, and brought the girl; and she was punished as are they that have the evil road.

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**Who acts:** Cum pah, la wen, Arrow · **What happens:** wen, go, run, bring, punish, be · **To what, where:** girl

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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 Brave Bobtails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cum pah, la wen, Arrow), 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:pg77804:26:118
# text = Then the Cum-pah-whít-la-wen[91] went running with their bows and arrows, and brought the girl; and she was punished as are they that have the evil road.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Cum	cum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	pah	pah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	whít	whít	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	la	la	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	91	91	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wen** |  | the Cum pah |  |  |  | then | 91 *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | la wen |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | la wen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Arrow's bows and arrows | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with bow=Material |
| 4 | **bring** | past | la wen *not said here* |  | the girl |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument girl=Destination |
| 5 | **punish** | past · passive |  | girl |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | present | Arrow |  |  |  |  | that *nsubj*; the evil road *obj*; have *property* | tree rules |

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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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