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title: Time passing so, it came that one day the Men of the Old made _nah-k… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Time passing so, it came that one day the Men of the Old made _nah-kú-ah-shu_, the great round-hunt. Who acts: Time, trick, Men, kú. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Doctor Field-mouse, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 92

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Time passing so, it came that one day the Men of the Old made \_nah-kú-ah-shu\_, the great round-hunt.

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**Who acts:** Time, trick, Men, kú · **What happens:** pass, come, make, shu

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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 (Time, trick, Men, kú), 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:pg77804:34:94
# text = Time passing so, it came that one day the Men of the Old made _nah-kú-ah-shu_, the great round-hunt.
1	Time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nmod	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	kú	kú	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	shu	shu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	round	round	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | gerund | Time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | trick |  |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | the Men of the Old |  |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **shu** |  | kú |  |  |  |  | the great round hunt *conj* | tree rules |

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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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