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title: Amid great rejoicing he was taken to Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee, and there h… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Amid great rejoicing he was taken to Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee, and there he told the _principales_[7] how he had been left in the cave, how the Coyote had pitied him, and how the Mother-Antelope had reared him as her own son. Who acts: hunter, Coyote. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 33

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Amid great rejoicing he was taken to Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee, and there he told the \_principales\_\[7\] how he had been left in the cave, how the Coyote had pitied him, and how the Mother-Antelope had reared him as her own son.

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**Who acts:** hunter, Coyote · **What happens:** take, tell, leave, pity, rear · **To what, where:** hunter, principales, cave, Mother, Amid great rejoicing · **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 Antelope Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunter, Coyote), 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:pg77804:3:33
# text = Amid great rejoicing he was taken to Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee, and there he told the _principales_[7] how he had been left in the cave, how the Coyote had pitied him, and how the Mother-Antelope had reared him as her own son.
1	Amid	amid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rejoicing	rejoicing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	_
8	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	bah	bah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	tóo	tóo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	ee	ee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	principales	principale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
29	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	pitied	pity	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
46	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	52	advmod	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	Antelope	Antelope	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	appos	_	_
51	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	reared	rear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
53	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	as	as	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
56	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · passive |  | hunter |  |  |  | ee *obl*; bah tóo *parataxis* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | hunter | the principales |  | there |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent principale=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | hunter |  | the cave |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in cave=Location |
| 4 | **pity** | past · perfect | the Coyote | hunter |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 5 | **rear** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Mother |  |  |  | as mother's own son; hunter *obj* | 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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