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title: Now they will either forsake their gods and serve us, or die like th… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now they will either forsake their gods and serve us, or die like the animals, thinking nothing of their past or future.” Who acts: people. 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 depend
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 50

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Now they will either forsake their gods and serve us, or die like the animals, thinking nothing of their past or future.”

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** forsake, serve, die, think · **To what, where:** gods, us, nothing

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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 (people), 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:pg77804:25:50
# text = Now they will either forsake their gods and serve us, or die like the animals, thinking nothing of their past or future.”
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	forsake	forsake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	serve	serve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	18	obj	_	_
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	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forsake** | future | people | people's gods |  |  | now | either *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **serve** | present | people *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Attribute |
| 3 | **die** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like the animals | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | people *not said here* | nothing of people's past  future |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=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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