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title: Take only this Toad, and bury it in your floor, _this_ way, and then… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Take only this Toad, and bury it in your floor, _this_ way, and then ask T’hoor-hlóh-ah to come to your house.” Who acts: you. 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 pragmatic
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 51

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Take only this Toad, and bury it in your floor, \_this\_ way, and then ask T’hoor-hlóh-ah to come to your house.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take, bury, ask, come · **To what, where:** Toad, floor, T’hoor hlóh, house

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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 (you), 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:pg77804:26:52
# text = Take only this Toad, and bury it in your floor, _this_ way, and then ask T’hoor-hlóh-ah to come to your house.”
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bury	bury	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
21	T’hoor	t'hoor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	hlóh	hlóh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | this Toad |  |  |  | this way *obl:unmarked* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bury** | infinitive |  | Toad |  | your floor |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in floor=Destination |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive |  | T’hoor hlóh |  |  | then |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hlóh=Recipient |
| 4 | **come** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | your house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |

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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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