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description: Every custom they have and every belief they own has a reason which to them is all-sufficient; and for each they have a story. Who acts: customs, belief, reason. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brown Story-tellers, wi
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 51

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Every custom they have and every belief they own has a reason which to them is all-sufficient; and for each they have a story.

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**Who acts:** customs, belief, reason · **What happens:** have, own, be · **To what, where:** custom, belief, reason, 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 Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (customs, belief, reason), 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:pg77804:2:51
# text = Every custom they have and every belief they own has a reason which to them is all-sufficient; and for each they have a story.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	own	own	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	obl	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | customs *= custom* | every custom |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=Patient |
| 2 | **own** | present | customs *= custom* | every belief *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot belief=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | every belief | a reason |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | a reason |  |  |  |  | all, sufficient *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | present | customs *= custom* | a story |  |  |  | for each | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=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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