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title: [56] This story seems to be one of the myths about the Hero Twin Bro… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [56] This story seems to be one of the myths about the Hero Twin Brothers, the children of the Sun. They are, next to Sun-Father and Moon-Mother, the chief deities of all the southwestern tribes. Who acts: story, children. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-sto
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 119

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\[56\] This story seems to be one of the myths about the Hero Twin Brothers, the children of the Sun. They are, next to Sun-Father and Moon-Mother, the chief deities of all the southwestern tribes.

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**Who acts:** story, children · **What happens:** seem, be · **To what, where:** 56, one

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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 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 (story, children), 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:pg77804:15:123
# text = [56] This story seems to be one of the myths about the Hero Twin Brothers, the children of the Sun. They are, next to Sun-Father and Moon-Mother, the chief deities of all the southwestern tribes.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	56	56	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	xcomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	Hero	Hero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	Twin	Twin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Brothers	Brother	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	next	next	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	deities	deity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	44	det:predet	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	southwestern	southwestern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | this story | 56 |  |  |  | Sun Father and Moon and Mother and the chief deities of all southwestern tribes *parataxis* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | this story *not said here* | one |  |  |  | of the myths about the Hero Twin Brothers | tree rules |
| 3 | **does** | present | the children of the Sun. |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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