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title: “But how can I come into so small a door?” objected Tái-oh. — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “But how can I come into so small a door?” objected Tái-oh. Who acts: Tái. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, 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 Moqui\[72\] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 39

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“But how can I come into so small a door?” objected Tái-oh.

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**Who acts:** Tái · **What happens:** come, object · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 Moqui\[72\] Boy and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tái), 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:pg77804:20:39
# text = “But how can I come into so small a door?” objected Tái-oh.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
14	objected	object	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	Tái	Tái	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | can | Tái |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **object** *speech: other* | past | Tái |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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