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title: [54] I should tell you that, being a witch, she could not possibly h… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [54] I should tell you that, being a witch, she could not possibly have gone under the right wing. Who acts: 54, woman. 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 the pragmatics 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 88

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\[54\] I should tell you that, being a witch, she could not possibly have gone under the right wing.

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**Who acts:** 54, woman · **What happens:** tell, be, not go · **To what, where:** you, witch, right wing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (54, woman), 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:pg77804:15:92
# text = [54] I should tell you that, being a witch, she could not possibly have gone under the right wing.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	54	54	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
17	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should | 54 |  | you |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | gerund |  | a witch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **go** | could · perfect | woman |  |  | the right wing |  | possibly *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under wing=Location |

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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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