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description: “Now let each tribe of you choose from it one who is young and strong, to give help to him who has fed us. 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 pragmatics of 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 76

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“Now let each tribe of you choose from it one who is young and strong, to give help to him who has fed us.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** let, choose, be, give, feed · **To what, where:** tribe, help, pueblo, us

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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:pg77804:26:77
# text = “Now let each tribe of you choose from it one who is young and strong, to give help to him who has fed us.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	choose	choose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	parataxis	_	_
26	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | each tribe |  |  | now |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribe=Theme |
| 2 | **choose** *in a quote* | present | you | each tribe *not said here* |  |  |  | from one  tribe | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tribe=Theme from one=Source |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; young *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | help | pueblo |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent help=Theme to he=Recipient |
| 6 | **feed** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | us |  |  |  | who *nsubj:pass* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient we=Theme |

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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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