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title: It was so that he had to hire a great many men to help him home with… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was so that he had to hire a great many men to help him home with his wealth, which was more than any one person ever had before. Who acts: It, wealth, one person. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Wouldn’t K
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 87

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It was so that he had to hire a great many men to help him home with his wealth, which was more than any one person ever had before.

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**Who acts:** It, wealth, one person · **What happens:** be, hire, help, have · **To what, where:** great many men, half

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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 (It, wealth, one person), 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:pg77804:25:87
# text = It was so that he had to hire a great many men to help him home with his wealth, which was more than any one person ever had before.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	6	mark	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hire	hire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	home	home	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	before	before	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | It |  |  |  |  | half *nsubj*; have *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hire** | to-infinitive |  | a great many men |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | to-infinitive |  |  | half |  |  | with half's wealth; home *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary with wealth=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | half's wealth |  |  |  |  | than any one person; more *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | any one person *not said here* |  |  |  | ever | before *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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