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title: Such a strange animal, once heard of, would be very sure to figure i… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Such a strange animal, once heard of, would be very sure to figure in some story. Who acts: strange animal. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accursed Lake, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 100

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Such a strange animal, once heard of, would be very sure to figure in some story.

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**Who acts:** strange animal · **What happens:** hear, be, figure · **To what, where:** strange animal, story

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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 Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange animal), 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:pg77804:19:101
# text = Such a strange animal, once heard of, would be very sure to figure in some story.
1	Such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	4	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	figure	figure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | participle |  | such strange animal *not said here* |  |  |  | once *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | would | such strange animal |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **figure** | to-infinitive | such strange animal *not said here* |  |  | some story |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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