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title: He had no parents, for he was created by the Trues themselves, and b… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: He had no parents, for he was created by the Trues themselves, and by them was given such extraordinary powers as were second only to their own. Who acts: name, Trues. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married t
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 3

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He had no parents, for he was created by the Trues themselves, and by them was given such extraordinary powers as were second only to their own.

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**Who acts:** name, Trues · **What happens:** have, create, give, be · **To what, where:** parents, name, such extraordinary powers

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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 (name, Trues), 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:pg77804:10:3
# text = He had no parents, for he was created by the Trues themselves, and by them was given such extraordinary powers as were second only to their own.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	created	create	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Trues	true	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
25	second	second	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	29	advmod	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | name | no parents |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Patient |
| 2 | **create** | past · passive | the Trues | name |  |  |  | Trues *= true* *obl* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |
| 3 | **give** | past · passive | Trues *= true* | such extraordinary powers |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | Trues *= true* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | powers *= power* *nmod:poss*; own, second *property* | 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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