---
title: (Badger-Old-Man four days Has the hunger-killing, To know, to know s… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: (Badger-Old-Man four days Has the hunger-killing, To know, to know surely If Field-Mouse-Old-Man Has the Medicine Power. Who acts: Badger, Field Old Man. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Doctor Field-mouse, with its depend
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/34/77/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The man who married the moon, and othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/) / [Doctor Field-mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/34/) / 77

# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 77

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
(Badger-Old-Man four days Has the hunger-killing, To know, to know surely If Field-Mouse-Old-Man Has the Medicine Power.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Badger, Field Old Man · **What happens:** have, know · **To what, where:** hunger killing, Medicine Power

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Badger, Field Old Man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:34:79
# text = (Badger-Old-Man four days Has the hunger-killing, To know, to know surely If Field-Mouse-Old-Man Has the Medicine Power.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	Has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	killing	killing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	To	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
20	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
22	Field	Field	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	Has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Medicine	Medicine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	amod	_	_
32	Power	Power	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Badger and Old Man | the hunger killing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent killing=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **know** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Field Old Man | the Medicine Power |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/34/76/)
- next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/34/78/)
- ↑ back to [Doctor Field-mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/34/)