--- title: Having steered them across the _acequia_ and up the sand-hills to th… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: Having steered them across the _acequia_ and up the sand-hills to the beginning of the plain, he climbed to the top of the _Kú-mai_ to watch them through the day--as has been the custom of Isleta herders from time immemorial. Who acts: Desiderio. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Desiderio), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:32:65 # text = Having steered them across the _acequia_ and up the sand-hills to the beginning of the plain, he climbed to the top of the _Kú-mai_ to watch them through the day--as has been the custom of Isleta herders from time immemorial. 1 Having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 reparandum _ _ 2 steered steer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 across across ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 acequia acequia NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 7 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 up up ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 beginning beginning NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 plain plain NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 _ _ PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Kú Kú PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 mai mai X FW Foreign=Yes 30 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 33 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 23 punct _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 through through ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 -- -- PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 as as ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 42 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 43 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 45 cop _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 custom custom NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 parataxis _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 Isleta Isleta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 herders herder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nmod _ _ 49 from from ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ _ 51 immemorial immemorial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | gerund | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **steer** | past | | eyes *= eye* | | the acequia and the sand hills to the beginning of the plain | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme across acequia=Destination | | 3 | **climb** | past | Desiderio | | | the top | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination | | 4 | **watch** | to-infinitive | Desiderio *not said here* | eyes *= eye* | | | day | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present · perfect | | | | | | as the custom; of Isleta herders from time | tree rules | | 6 | **begin** | | | the plain | | | | | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/32/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/32/66/) - ↑ back to [The Hungry Grandfathers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/32/)