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title: So the people called him _Pée-hleh-o-wah-wée-deh_ (big-headed little… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the people called him _Pée-hleh-o-wah-wée-deh_ (big-headed little boy). Who acts: people, wah. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Antelope Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 37

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So the people called him \_Pée-hleh-o-wah-wée-deh\_ (big-headed little boy).

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**Who acts:** people, wah · **What happens:** call, deh · **To what, where:** head · **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 (people, wah), 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:pg77804:3:37
# text = So the people called him _Pée-hleh-o-wah-wée-deh_ (big-headed little boy).
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Pée	Pée	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	hleh	hleh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	17	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	wah	wah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	wée	wée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	deh	deh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	headed	headed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | the people |  | head |  |  | Pée hleh and wée deh *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **deh** |  | wah |  |  |  |  | big headed little boy *appos* | 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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