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title: The fact that they doubt whether Americans know enough to be first-c… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The fact that they doubt whether Americans know enough to be first-class witches was largely instrumental in saving me from serious danger. Who acts: actions, Americans, fact. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Drowning 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 132

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The fact that they doubt whether Americans know enough to be first-class witches was largely instrumental in saving me from serious danger.

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**Who acts:** actions, Americans, fact · **What happens:** doubt, know, be, save · **To what, where:** fact, enough class witches, me, serious danger

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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 (actions, Americans, fact), 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:pg77804:23:132
# text = The fact that they doubt whether Americans know enough to be first-class witches was largely instrumental in saving me from serious danger.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	doubt	doubt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	_
6	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	Americans	American	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	instrumental	instrumental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
19	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	saving	save	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **doubt** | present | actions *= action* | the fact *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | present | Americans | enough class witches |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer witch=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the fact |  |  |  |  | instrumental, largely *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **save** | gerund | the fact *not said here* | me |  | serious danger |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from danger=Source |

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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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