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title: And from the _Kú-mai_, black against the starry sky, the howl of Too… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And from the _Kú-mai_, black against the starry sky, the howl of Too-wháy-deh, wandering with his toothache, swelled across the sleeping village of the Tée-wahn. Who acts: wháy deh, toothache. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lumm
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 120

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And from the \_Kú-mai\_, black against the starry sky, the howl of Too-wháy-deh, wandering with his toothache, swelled across the sleeping village of the Tée-wahn.

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**Who acts:** wháy deh, toothache · **What happens:** wonder, swell, sleep, howl · **To what, where:** sleeping village, Kú

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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, Doctor Field-mouse. 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, toothache), 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:pg77804:34:124
# text = And from the _Kú-mai_, black against the starry sky, the howl of Too-wháy-deh, wandering with his toothache, swelled across the sleeping village of the Tée-wahn.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Kú	Kú	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	mai	mai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
11	against	against	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	starry	starry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	howl	howl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	wháy	wháy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	deh	deh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	toothache	toothache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	swelled	swell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	across	across	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	amod	_	_
34	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	Tée	Tée	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	wahn	wahn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | wháy deh *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with deh's toothache | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **swell** | past | deh's toothache *not said here* |  |  | the sleeping village of the Tée wahn |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **sleep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **howl** |  | wháy deh |  |  |  |  |  | nom howl «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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