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title: To call an Indian here “_Too-wháy-deh_” is one of the bitterest insu… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: To call an Indian here “_Too-wháy-deh_” is one of the bitterest insults that can be offered him. Who acts: wháy deh. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote, 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 Coyote, sentence 5

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To call an Indian here “\_Too-wháy-deh\_” is one of the bitterest insults that can be offered him.

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**Who acts:** wháy deh · **What happens:** call, be, offer · **To what, where:** Indian, one, bitterest insults, rabbit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wháy deh), 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:pg77804:33:5
# text = To call an Indian here “_Too-wháy-deh_” is one of the bitterest insults that can be offered him.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	wháy	wháy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	deh	deh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	bitterest	bitter	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	insults	insult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | to-infinitive |  | a Indian |  | here |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent indian=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | wháy deh | one |  |  |  | of the bitterest insults | tree rules |
| 3 | **offer** | can · passive |  | the bitterest insults | rabbit |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal he=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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