The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 7

_Kah-whee-cá-me_ is what a Teé-wahn Indian always says in such a case, instead of “Now _you_ tell a story, friend.”

Who acts: Kah whee cá, you · What happens: be, say, tell · To what, where: case, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-seek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kah whee cá, you), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 cá	punct
2	Kah	Kah	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cá	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Kah	punct
4	whee	whee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cá	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 whee	punct
6	cá	cá	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 what	nsubj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 me	punct
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 cá	appos
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 me	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 what	cop
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Teé	det
13	Teé	Teé	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 what	nsubj
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Teé	punct
15	wahn	wahn	X	Foreign=Yes	13 Teé	dep
16	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Teé	appos
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 says	advmod
18	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Indian	ccomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 case	case
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	22 case	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 case	det
22	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 says	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tell	punct
24	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	29 you	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	24 instead	fixed
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 you	punct
27	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 you	advmod
28	_	_	PUNCT	_	29 you	punct
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 tell	nsubj
30	_	_	PART	_	31 tell	mark
31	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 says	parataxis
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 story	det
33	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tell	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 friend	punct
35	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 story	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 tell	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Kah whee cá			a Teé nsubj	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	Kah whee cá not said here		such case	always property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	you	a story and friend			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

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.

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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 7

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 7