--- title: ONCE upon a time there were two towns of the Tée-wahn, called Nah-ba… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: ONCE upon a time there were two towns of the Tée-wahn, called Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee (white village) and Nah-choo-rée-too-ee (yellow village). Who acts: two towns, bah tóo. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two towns, bah tóo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:3:1 # text = ONCE upon a time there were two towns of the Tée-wahn, called Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee (white village) and Nah-choo-rée-too-ee (yellow village). 1 ONCE once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 6 advmod _ _ 2 upon upon ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 6 expl _ _ 6 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 Tée Tée PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 wahn wahn NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 16 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 24 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 bah bah NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 tóo tóo NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 too too ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ee ee NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 xcomp _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 34 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 choo choo NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 rée rée NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 too too ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ee ee NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 39 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | two towns of the Tée wahn | | | there | | once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **call** | participle | | two towns of the Tée wahn *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **ee** | | bah tóo | | | | | white village *appos*; choo rée *conj* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [The Brown Story-tellers, 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/2/102/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/2/) - ↑ back to [The Antelope Boy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/)