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title: I will take you by the back and count _weem_, _wée-si_, _p’áh-chu_! — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: I will take you by the back and count _weem_, _wée-si_, _p’áh-chu_! Who acts: I. 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 95

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I will take you by the back and count \_weem\_, \_wée-si\_, \_p’áh-chu\_!

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** take, count · **To what, where:** you, weem

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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 (I), 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:pg77804:33:95
# text = I will take you by the back and count _weem_, _wée-si_, _p’áh-chu_!
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	weem	weem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	wée	wée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	si	si	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	p’áh	p'áh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	chu	chu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | future | I | you |  |  |  | by the back; p’áh *obj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Theme p'áh=Destination |
| 2 | **count** | infinitive | I *not said here* | weem and wée si |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weem=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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