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title: It has nothing to do with the story; but is the prologue to inform t… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It has nothing to do with the story; but is the prologue to inform the hearers that the story is about to open. Who acts: t, hearers. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-seek, with its dependency tree and t
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 22

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It has nothing to do with the story; but is the prologue to inform the hearers that the story is about to open.

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**Who acts:** t, hearers · **What happens:** have, do, be, inform, open · **To what, where:** nothing, prologue, hearers

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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 (t, hearers), 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:pg77804:15:22
# text = It has nothing to do with the story; but is the prologue to inform the hearers that the story is about to open.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	prologue	prologue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	inform	inform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hearers	hearer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | t | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | t *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  | with the story | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the prologue |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **inform** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | t *not said here* | the hearers |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hearer=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** | present | the hearers |  |  |  |  | the story *nsubj*; about *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **open** | to-infinitive | the hearers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «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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