--- title: Once upon a time Too-wháy-shur-wée-deh, the Little-Blue-Fox,[105] wa… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: Once upon a time Too-wháy-shur-wée-deh, the Little-Blue-Fox,[105] was wandering near a pueblo, and chanced to come to the threshing-floors, where a great many crows were hopping. Who acts: wháy, great many crows. 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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 (wháy, great many crows), 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:pg77804:33:9 # text = Once upon a time Too-wháy-shur-wée-deh, the Little-Blue-Fox,[105] was wandering near a pueblo, and chanced to come to the threshing-floors, where a great many crows were hopping. 1 Once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 26 advmod _ _ 2 upon upon ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 5 Too too ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 wháy wháy NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 shur shur NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 wée wée NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 deh deh NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 16 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 105 105 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 wandering wonder VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 27 near near ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 pueblo pueblo NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 chanced chance VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 threshing threshing NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 floors floor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 41 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 47 advmod _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 43 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 44 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nsubj _ _ 46 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 47 hopping hop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past · progressive | wháy and shur and wée and deh and the Blue Fox | | | a pueblo | time | once *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **chance** | participle | wháy and shur and wée and deh and the Blue Fox *not said here* | | | | | | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | wháy and shur and wée and deh and the Blue Fox *not said here* | | | the threshing floors | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to floor=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **hop** | past · progressive | a great many crows | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/33/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/33/10/) - ↑ back to [The Coyote](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/33/)