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title: And whichever gets the voice of the majority, he shall be the winner… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And whichever gets the voice of the majority, he shall be the winner, and shall take all that is of the other.” Who acts: whichever, man, that. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, with its de
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 21

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And whichever gets the voice of the majority, he shall be the winner, and shall take all that is of the other.”

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**Who acts:** whichever, man, that · **What happens:** get, be, take · **To what, where:** voice, winner

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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 Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whichever, man, that), 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:pg77804:25:21
# text = And whichever gets the voice of the majority, he shall be the winner, and shall take all that is of the other.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	whichever	whichever	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	winner	winner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | whichever | the voice of the majority |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | shall | man | the winner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | shall |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | other *property* | 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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