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title: The sovereign remedy for toothache, however, is to go to the _estufa… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The sovereign remedy for toothache, however, is to go to the _estufa_ after dark, carrying food in the left hand, march round inside the big circular room three times, leave the food under the secret recess in the wall where the scalps taken in old wars are kept, and then come out. Who acts: soverei
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 49

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The sovereign remedy for toothache, however, is to go to the \_estufa\_ after dark, carrying food in the left hand, march round inside the big circular room three times, leave the food under the secret recess in the wall where the scalps taken in old wars are kept, and then come out.

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**Who acts:** sovereign remedy · **What happens:** be, carry, march, leave, take, keep · **To what, where:** food, left hand, big circular room, secret recess, scalps, old wars

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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 (sovereign remedy), 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:pg77804:34:50
# text = The sovereign remedy for toothache, however, is to go to the _estufa_ after dark, carrying food in the left hand, march round inside the big circular room three times, leave the food under the secret recess in the wall where the scalps taken in old wars are kept, and then come out.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	remedy	remedy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	toothache	toothache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	however	however	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	estufa	estufa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	march	march	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
28	round	round	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	circular	circular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	under	under	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	recess	recess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
47	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	55	advmod	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	scalps	scalp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	acl	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	_
54	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux:pass	_	_
55	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
58	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	59	advmod	_	_
59	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
60	out	out	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the sovereign remedy for toothache |  |  |  |  | to the estufa; go, however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund | the sovereign remedy for toothache *not said here* | food |  | the left hand |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Value in hand=Location |
| 3 | **march** | infinitive | the sovereign remedy for toothache *not said here* |  |  | the big circular room | time | round *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside room=Trajectory |
| 4 | **leave** | infinitive |  | the food |  | the secret recess |  | in the wall | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Theme under recess=Location |
| 5 | **take** | participle |  | the scalps *not said here* |  | old wars |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in war=Location |
| 6 | **keep** | present · passive |  | the scalps |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **come out** | infinitive | the sovereign remedy for toothache *not said here* |  |  |  | then | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

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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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