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title: “Take these seeds of the pine-tree and these piñon-nuts which I have… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Take these seeds of the pine-tree and these piñon-nuts which I have brought for you, and be very careful of them. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Sobbing Pine, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 67

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“Take these seeds of the pine-tree and these piñon-nuts which I have brought for you, and be very careful of them.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take, bring, be · **To what, where:** seeds, pine tree

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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 Sobbing Pine. 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:pg77804:28:67
# text = “Take these seeds of the pine-tree and these piñon-nuts which I have brought for you, and be very careful of them.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
12	piñon	piñon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | this seeds of the pine tree and this piñon nuts |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the pine tree and this piñon nuts |  |  |  | for you; I *nsubj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of nuts *= nut*; careful *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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