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description: The Indians were greatly astonished; and one of them, who was a medicine-man, began to suspect that there was something wrong. Who acts: Indians, one, something. 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
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 41

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The Indians were greatly astonished; and one of them, who was a medicine-man, began to suspect that there was something wrong.

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**Who acts:** Indians, one, something · **What happens:** be, begin, suspect · **To what, where:** medicine man

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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 (Indians, one, something), 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:pg77804:22:41
# text = The Indians were greatly astonished; and one of them, who was a medicine-man, began to suspect that there was something wrong.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	suspect	suspect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
25	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	nsubj	_	_
26	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Indians |  |  |  |  | astonished, greatly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a medicine man |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **begin** | past | one of Indians |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **suspect** | to-infinitive | one of Indians *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **be** | past | something |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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