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title: Probably they called him something else “for short,” or people would… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Probably they called him something else “for short,” or people wouldn’t have had time to associate with him. Who acts: friends, people. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Town of the Snake-girls, with its dependency tree
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 12

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Probably they called him something else “for short,” or people wouldn’t have had time to associate with him.

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**Who acts:** friends, people · **What happens:** call, not have, associate · **To what, where:** Man · **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 Town of the Snake-girls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, people), 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:pg77804:22:12
# text = Probably they called him something else “for short,” or people wouldn’t have had time to associate with him.
1	Probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	xcomp	_	_
6	else	else	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	associate	associate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | friends *= friend* | Man |  |  |  | something *xcomp*; probably *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **have** | would · perfect | people |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **associate** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Man | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with he=Co-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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