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title: “I see,” thought Good to himself, “that these devils told the truth… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “I see,” thought Good to himself, “that these devils told the truth about one thing, and so perhaps they did about all. Who acts: I, devils, things. 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 i
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 73

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“I see,” thought Good to himself, “that these devils told the truth about one thing, and so perhaps they did about all.

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**Who acts:** I, devils, things · **What happens:** see, think, tell, do · **To what, where:** truth, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, devils, things), 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:pg77804:25:73
# text = “I see,” thought Good to himself, “that these devils told the truth about one thing, and so perhaps they did about all.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
27	about	about	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | this devils | the truth |  |  |  | about one thing | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient about thing=Topic |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | past | things *= thing* | all |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality |

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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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