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title: For here is Sun-Arrow, who was laughed at--and now he has brought th… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: For here is Sun-Arrow, who was laughed at--and now he has brought the bark of Red Scalp, whom our bravest have tried in vain to kill.” Who acts: Sun, ah, bravest. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brave Bobtails, with i
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 27

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For here is Sun-Arrow, who was laughed at--and now he has brought the bark of Red Scalp, whom our bravest have tried in vain to kill.”

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**Who acts:** Sun, ah, bravest · **What happens:** be, laugh, bring, try, kill · **To what, where:** Arrow, bark

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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, ah, bravest), 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:pg77804:26:28
# text = For here is Sun-Arrow, who was laughed at--and now he has brought the bark of Red Scalp, whom our bravest have tried in vain to kill.”
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Arrow	Arrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Scalp	scalp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
25	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	bravest	brave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Sun |  |  |  |  | Arrow *conj*; here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **laugh** | past · passive |  | Arrow |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | present · perfect | ah | the bark of Red Scalp |  |  | now |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bark=Theme |
| 4 | **try** | present · perfect | our bravest | the bark of Red Scalp |  |  |  | vain *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **kill** | to-infinitive | our bravest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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