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title: Máw-sahv and Oó-yah-wee were famous hunters, and always wished to go… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Máw-sahv and Oó-yah-wee were famous hunters, and always wished to go south; but their grandmother always forbade them. Who acts: Máw sahv, grandmother. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hero Twins, with its dependency t
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 93

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Máw-sahv and Oó-yah-wee were famous hunters, and always wished to go south; but their grandmother always forbade them.

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**Who acts:** Máw sahv, grandmother · **What happens:** be, wish, go, forbid · **To what, where:** famous hunters, hunters

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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 Hero Twins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Máw sahv, grandmother), 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:pg77804:31:94
# text = Máw-sahv and Oó-yah-wee were famous hunters, and always wished to go south; but their grandmother always forbade them.
1	Máw	Máw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	sahv	sahv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	Oó	Oó	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	yah	yah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	wee	wee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
16	wished	wish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	south	south	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	25	advmod	_	_
25	forbade	forbid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Máw sahv and Oó yah wee | famous hunters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wish** | participle | Máw sahv and Oó yah wee *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Máw sahv and Oó yah wee *not said here* |  |  |  |  | south *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **forbid** | past | hunters's grandmother | hunters *= hunter* |  |  |  | always *property* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Theme |

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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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