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title: When the Grandmother had spoken to the Cacique, and it was well, the… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Grandmother had spoken to the Cacique, and it was well, they brought the young people together, and gave them to eat of the betrothal corn--to Sun Arrow an ear of the blue corn, and to her an ear of the white corn, because the hearts of maidens are whiter than those of men. Who acts: Caciqu
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 31

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When the Grandmother had spoken to the Cacique, and it was well, they brought the young people together, and gave them to eat of the betrothal corn--to Sun Arrow an ear of the blue corn, and to her an ear of the white corn, because the hearts of maidens are whiter than those of men.

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**Who acts:** Cacique, daughters, hearts · **What happens:** speak, be, bring, give, eat · **To what, where:** Grandmother, young people, ear, daughters, Sun Arrow · **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 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 (Cacique, daughters, hearts), 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:pg77804:26:32
# text = When the Grandmother had spoken to the Cacique, and it was well, they brought the young people together, and gave them to eat of the betrothal corn--to Sun Arrow an ear of the blue corn, and to her an ear of the white corn, because the hearts of maidens are whiter than those of men.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Grandmother	Grandmother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Cacique	Cacique	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	together	together	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	betrothal	betrothal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Arrow	Arrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
45	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
52	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nsubj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nmod	_	_
57	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
58	whiter	white	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	conj	_	_
59	than	than	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	58	obl	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | the Grandmother |  |  |  | to the Cacique | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Cacique |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | past | daughters *= daughter* |  | the young people |  |  | together *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument people=Destination |
| 4 | **give** | past | daughters *= daughter* *not said here* | Grandmother's ear of the white corn | daughters *= daughter* |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | daughters *= daughter* *not said here* |  | Sun Arrow |  |  | of the betrothal corn | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of corn=Source |
| 6 | **is** | present | the hearts of maidens |  |  |  |  | than those of men; white *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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