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title: Good agreed--for an Indian cannot back out of a challenge,--and so t… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Good agreed--for an Indian cannot back out of a challenge,--and so the next morning the two friends took the public road. Who acts: two friends. 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 d
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 22

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Good agreed--for an Indian cannot back out of a challenge,--and so the next morning the two friends took the public road.

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**Who acts:** two friends · **What happens:** agree, take · **To what, where:** public road

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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 (two friends), 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:pg77804:25:22
# text = Good agreed--for an Indian cannot back out of a challenge,--and so the next morning the two friends took the public road.
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
6	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	challenge	challenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | a Indian challenge *parataxis* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | the two friends | the public road |  |  | morning |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme |

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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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