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title: [21] The game of _mah-khúr_, which the Pueblos learned from the Apac… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [21] The game of _mah-khúr_, which the Pueblos learned from the Apaches many centuries ago, is a very simple one, but is a favorite with all witches as a snare for those whom they would injure. Who acts: Pueblos, witches. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stor
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 33

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\[21\] The game of \_mah-khúr\_, which the Pueblos learned from the Apaches many centuries ago, is a very simple one, but is a favorite with all witches as a snare for those whom they would injure.

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**Who acts:** Pueblos, witches · **What happens:** learn, be, injure · **To what, where:** Apaches, simple one, favorite, 21

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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 (Pueblos, witches), 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:pg77804:8:34
# text = [21] The game of _mah-khúr_, which the Pueblos learned from the Apaches many centuries ago, is a very simple one, but is a favorite with all witches as a snare for those whom they would injure.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	mah	mah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	khúr	khúr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Pueblos	Pueblos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Apaches	apache	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	favorite	favorite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
36	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	snare	snare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	39	nmod	_	_
42	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	45	obj	_	_
43	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	injure	injure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | the Pueblos |  |  | the Apaches and many centuries |  | which *obj* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent which=Topic from apache=Source |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a simple one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | a favorite |  |  |  | with all witches as a snare for those | tree rules |
| 4 | **injure** | would | witches *= witch* |  |  |  |  | whom *obj* | 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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