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description: In either case, the belief is that no evil spirit can approach the wearer while he has that charm about him. Who acts: belief, Quáh. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, with its dependency tre
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 28

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In either case, the belief is that no evil spirit can approach the wearer while he has that charm about him.

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**Who acts:** belief, Quáh · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** case, charm

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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 Maker of the Thunder-knives. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (belief, Quáh), 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:pg77804:12:28
# text = In either case, the belief is that no evil spirit can approach the wearer while he has that charm about him.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
10	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	approach	approach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wearer	wearer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can · present | the belief |  |  | either case |  | no evil spirit *nsubj*; the wearer *obj*; approach *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | Quáh | that charm |  |  |  | about pouch | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=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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