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title: [10] A common Indian taunt, either good-natured or bitter, to the lo… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [10] A common Indian taunt, either good-natured or bitter, to the loser of a game or to a conquered enemy. 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 56

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\[10\] A common Indian taunt, either good-natured or bitter, to the loser of a game or to a conquered enemy.

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**What happens:** conquer · **To what, where:** 10

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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: 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:pg77804:3:57
# text = [10] A common Indian taunt, either good-natured or bitter, to the loser of a game or to a conquered enemy.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	taunt	taunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc:preconj	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	natured	natured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	loser	loser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conquer** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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