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title: [70] It is quite possible that this “Fish-Animal with a hard, strong… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [70] It is quite possible that this “Fish-Animal with a hard, strong skin,” living far to the south, is the alligator. Who acts: fish, hard strong skin. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accursed Lake, with its dependen
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 98

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\[70\] It is quite possible that this “Fish-Animal with a hard, strong skin,” living far to the south, is the alligator.

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**Who acts:** fish, hard strong skin · **What happens:** be, live · **To what, where:** alligator

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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 (fish, hard strong skin), 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:pg77804:19:99
# text = [70] It is quite possible that this “Fish-Animal with a hard, strong skin,” living far to the south, is the alligator.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	advcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
22	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	alligator	alligator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | fish |  |  |  |  | 70 *obl*; this Fish Animal with a hard strong skin and the alligator *advcl*; possible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | a hard strong skin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the south | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | fish *not said here* | the alligator |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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