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title: AMONG the principal heroes of the Tée-wahn folk-lore, I hear of none… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: AMONG the principal heroes of the Tée-wahn folk-lore, I hear of none more frequently in the winter story-tellings to which my aboriginal neighbors admit me, than the mighty Nah-chu-rú-chu. Who acts: I, aboriginal neighbors. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-st
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 1

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AMONG the principal heroes of the Tée-wahn folk-lore, I hear of none more frequently in the winter story-tellings to which my aboriginal neighbors admit me, than the mighty Nah-chu-rú-chu.

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**Who acts:** I, aboriginal neighbors · **What happens:** hear, admit · **To what, where:** winter story tellings, me

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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 Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, aboriginal neighbors), 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:pg77804:10:1
# text = AMONG the principal heroes of the Tée-wahn folk-lore, I hear of none more frequently in the winter story-tellings to which my aboriginal neighbors admit me, than the mighty Nah-chu-rú-chu.
1	AMONG	among	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
7	Tée	Tée	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	wahn	wahn	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	nsubj	_	_
10	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	15	obl	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
23	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	tellings	telling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	admit	admit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
34	than	than	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
36	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
37	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	43	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	chu	chu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	rú	rú	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod:desc	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	chu	chu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | I |  |  | the winter story tellings |  | among the principal heroes of the folk lore  Tée; of none; frequently *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of none=Stimulus |
| 2 | **admit** *speech: other* | present | my aboriginal neighbors | me | the winter story tellings |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Topic to which=Recipient |

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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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