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title: With such a fate in prospect, you may be sure that the roundabout in… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: With such a fate in prospect, you may be sure that the roundabout invitation thus conveyed is never declined. Who acts: you. 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 pragma
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 9

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With such a fate in prospect, you may be sure that the roundabout invitation thus conveyed is never declined.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, convey, not decline · **To what, where:** roundabout invitation

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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 (you), 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:pg77804:15:9
# text = With such a fate in prospect, you may be sure that the roundabout invitation thus conveyed is never declined.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	4	det:predet	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	prospect	prospect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	roundabout	roundabout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	conveyed	convey	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	declined	decline	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | may | you |  |  |  |  | with such fate in prospect; sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **convey** | participle |  | the roundabout invitation *not said here* |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **decline** | present · passive |  | the roundabout invitation |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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