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title: Now Sun-Arrow met this great warrior; and with the help of an old Sp… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Sun-Arrow met this great warrior; and with the help of an old Spider-woman,[84] slew him and took his scalp. Who acts: Sun. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brave Bobtails, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 22

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Now Sun-Arrow met this great warrior; and with the help of an old Spider-woman,\[84\] slew him and took his scalp.

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**Who acts:** Sun · **What happens:** meet, slay, take, help · **To what, where:** great warrior, Isleta, scalp, old Spider woman

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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 (Sun), 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:pg77804:26:23
# text = Now Sun-Arrow met this great warrior; and with the help of an old Spider-woman,[84] slew him and took his scalp.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Arrow	Arrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	Spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	84	84	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	scalp	scalp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | Sun and Arrow | this great warrior |  |  | now |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **slay** | past | Sun and Arrow *not said here* | Isleta |  |  |  | with the help of a old Spider woman | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with help=Instrument |
| 3 | **take** | past | Sun and Arrow *not said here* | Isleta's scalp |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scalp=Theme |
| 4 | **help** |  |  | a old Spider woman |  |  |  |  | nom help «act 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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