--- title: He took from his medicine-pouch a pinch of the sacred meal and laid… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: He took from his medicine-pouch a pinch of the sacred meal and laid it on the snake’s flat head for its food; and then a pinch of the corn-pollen to tame it. Who acts: friend. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:8:108 # text = He took from his medicine-pouch a pinch of the sacred meal and laid it on the snake’s flat head for its food; and then a pinch of the corn-pollen to tame it. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 pouch pouch NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 pinch pinch NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 sacred sacred ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 pinch pinch NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 tame tame VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 acl _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | friend | a pinch of the sacred meal | | friend's medicine pouch | | a pinch of the corn pollen *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent pinch=Theme from pouch=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **lay** | past | friend *not said here* | pinch | | | | on the snake | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on snake=Destination | | 3 | **tame** | to-infinitive | friend *not said here* | pinch | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **pinch** | | | the sacred meal | | | | | nom pinch «state transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **pinch** | | | the corn pollen | | | | | nom pinch «state transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/8/106/) - next →: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/8/108/) - ↑ back to [The First of the Rattlesnakes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/8/)