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title: For see, there is a _guaje_[28] in your tail, and whenever you would… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: For see, there is a _guaje_[28] in your tail, and whenever you would do any one an injury, you must warn them beforehand with your rattle.” Who acts: _ guaje, you, your. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of the Ra
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 112

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For see, there is a \_guaje\_\[28\] in your tail, and whenever you would do any one an injury, you must warn them beforehand with your rattle.”

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**Who acts:** \_ guaje, you, your · **What happens:** be, do, warn, rattle · **To what, where:** tail, one injury

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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, The First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_ guaje, you, your), 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:pg77804:8:113
# text = For see, there is a _guaje_[28] in your tail, and whenever you would do any one an injury, you must warn them beforehand with your rattle.”
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	see	see	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	guaje	guaje	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
22	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	warn	warn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	beforehand	beforehand	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	rattle	rattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a \_ guaje |  |  | your tail; there |  | for see | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tail=Location |
| 2 | **do** | would | you | a one injury |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injury=Eventuality |
| 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | must | you |  | tail |  |  | with your rattle; beforehand *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 4 | **rattle** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom rattle «event intransitive»: poss=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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