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title: _” (Is that so?) we all exclaimed--that being the proper response wh… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: _” (Is that so?) we all exclaimed--that being the proper response whenever the narrator pauses a moment. Who acts: that, we, narrator. 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 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 59

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\_” (Is that so?) we all exclaimed--that being the proper response whenever the narrator pauses a moment.

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**Who acts:** that, we, narrator · **What happens:** be, exclaim, pause · **To what, where:** proper response

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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 (that, we, narrator), 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:pg77804:15:61
# text = _” (Is that so?) we all exclaimed--that being the proper response whenever the narrator pauses a moment.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
18	whenever	whenever	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	pauses	pause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | we |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | gerund |  | the proper response |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pause** *in a quote* | present | the narrator |  |  |  | moment |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

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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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