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title: His wonderful feats and startling adventures--as still related by th… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: His wonderful feats and startling adventures--as still related by the believing Isleteños--would fill a volume. Who acts: wonderful feats. 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, with its dependency 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 4

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His wonderful feats and startling adventures--as still related by the believing Isleteños--would fill a volume.

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**Who acts:** wonderful feats · **What happens:** startle, relate, believe, fill · **To what, where:** wonderful feats, volume

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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 (wonderful feats), 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:pg77804:10:4
# text = His wonderful feats and startling adventures--as still related by the believing Isleteños--would fill a volume.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	feats	feat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	startling	startle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	related	relate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	believing	believe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	Isleteños	Isleteños	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **startle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **relate** | participle |  | name's wonderful feats and startling adventures *not said here* |  |  | still | by the believing Isleteños | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **believe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **fill** | would | name's wonderful feats and startling adventures | a volume |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent volume=Patient |

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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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