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title: [69] Two being the usual number given a candidate for initiation int… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [69] Two being the usual number given a candidate for initiation into a medicine order. Who acts: 69, usual number. 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 c
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 79

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\[69\] Two being the usual number given a candidate for initiation into a medicine order.

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**Who acts:** 69, usual number · **What happens:** be, give · **To what, where:** usual number, candidate, medicine order

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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 (69, usual number), 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:pg77804:19:80
# text = [69] Two being the usual number given a candidate for initiation into a medicine order.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	69	69	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	candidate	candidate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	initiation	initiation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund | 69 | the usual number |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | participle | the usual number *not said here* | a candidate |  | a medicine order |  | for initiation | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent candidate=Theme for initiation=Asset |

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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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