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title: Look now in the store-rooms, if there be not something there.” — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Look now in the store-rooms, if there be not something there.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, 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 Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 141

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Look now in the store-rooms, if there be not something there.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** look, not be · **To what, where:** something

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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 Ants That Pushed on the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg77804:24:145
# text = Look now in the store-rooms, if there be not something there.”
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	conj	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now | in the store rooms | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in room=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | infinitive | you *not said here* | something |  | there |  |  | 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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