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title: The _T’ai-kár-nin_ had no town, but dwelt in caves of the lava mount… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The _T’ai-kár-nin_ had no town, but dwelt in caves of the lava mountain a couple of miles west of this village--the _Kú-mai_ hill. Who acts: T’ai, kár nin _. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers, with i
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 15

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The \_T’ai-kár-nin\_ had no town, but dwelt in caves of the lava mountain a couple of miles west of this village--the \_Kú-mai\_ hill.

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**Who acts:** T’ai, kár nin \_ · **What happens:** \_, have, dwell · **To what, where:** town, caves

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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 Hungry Grandfathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (T’ai, kár nin \_), 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:pg77804:32:15
# text = The _T’ai-kár-nin_ had no town, but dwelt in caves of the lava mountain a couple of miles west of this village--the _Kú-mai_ hill.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	T’ai	T'ai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	kár	kár	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	nin	nin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	west	west	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
31	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Kú	Kú	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	mai	mai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	_
36	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **\_** |  | T’ai |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | the kár nin \_ | no town |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Patient |
| 3 | **dwell** | past | the kár nin \_ *not said here* |  |  | caves of the lava mountain |  | of this village  the Kú hill | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location |

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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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