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title: [79] The thunder is said by the Tée-wahn to be the sacred dance-ratt… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [79] The thunder is said by the Tée-wahn to be the sacred dance-rattle of their gods. Who acts: Tée wahn. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Drowning of Pecos, 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 Drowning of Pecos, sentence 101

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\[79\] The thunder is said by the Tée-wahn to be the sacred dance-rattle of their gods.

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**Who acts:** Tée wahn · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** thunder, sacred dance rattle · **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 Drowning of Pecos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tée wahn), 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:pg77804:23:101
# text = [79] The thunder is said by the Tée-wahn to be the sacred dance-rattle of their gods.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	79	79	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Tée	Tée	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	wahn	wahn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	rattle	rattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	advcl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive | the Tée wahn | the thunder |  |  |  | 79 *obl* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the Tée wahn *not said here* | the sacred dance rattle |  |  |  | of Trues's gods | tree rules |

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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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