--- title: I have several times carefully explored the _Kú-mai_--a difficult an… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: I have several times carefully explored the _Kú-mai_--a difficult and tiresome task, thanks to the knife-like lava fragments which cover it everywhere, and which will cut a pair of new strong shoes to pieces in an afternoon. Who acts: I, like lava fragments. A sentence of «The man who married the mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/32/75/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The man who married the moon, and othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/) / [The Hungry Grandfathers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/32/) / 75 # The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 75 I have several times carefully explored the \_Kú-mai\_--a difficult and tiresome task, thanks to the knife-like lava fragments which cover it everywhere, and which will cut a pair of new strong shoes to pieces in an afternoon. **Who acts:** I, like lava fragments · **What happens:** have, explore, cover, cut · **To what, where:** Kú, pair 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 (I, like lava fragments), 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:pg77804:32:75 # text = I have several times carefully explored the _Kú-mai_--a difficult and tiresome task, thanks to the knife-like lava fragments which cover it everywhere, and which will cut a pair of new strong shoes to pieces in an afternoon. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 explored explore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 _ _ PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Kú Kú PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 mai mai X FW Foreign=Yes 9 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 12 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 -- -- PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 difficult difficult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 tiresome tiresome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 18 task task NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 23 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 lava lava NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 fragments fragment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 cover cover VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 35 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 41 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **explore** | past | I *not said here* | the Kú | | | time | carefully *property* | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent kú=Location | | 3 | **cover** | present | the like lava fragments | Kú | | | | everywhere *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | | 4 | **cut** | future | | a pair of new strong shoes | | | | to pieces in a afternoon *result*; which *nsubj* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent pair=Patient to piece=Result | 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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/32/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/32/76/) - ↑ back to [The Hungry Grandfathers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/32/)