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title: An invitation--or rather a challenge--of that sort must be accepted… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: An invitation--or rather a challenge--of that sort must be accepted under all Indian etiquette; and the witch-sisters agreed. Who acts: witch sisters. 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 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 63

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An invitation--or rather a challenge--of that sort must be accepted under all Indian etiquette; and the witch-sisters agreed.

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**Who acts:** witch sisters · **What happens:** accept, agree, invite · **To what, where:** invitation, Indian etiquette, sort

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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 (witch sisters), 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:pg77804:22:63
# text = An invitation--or rather a challenge--of that sort must be accepted under all Indian etiquette; and the witch-sisters agreed.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	challenge	challenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	accepted	accept	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
17	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	etiquette	etiquette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | must · passive |  | a invitation of that sort or a challenge |  | all Indian etiquette |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the witch sisters |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **invite** |  |  | that sort |  |  |  |  | nom invitation «communication transitive»: of=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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