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title: “_In-dah_,” said the crone; “for all the medicine men have tried vai… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “_In-dah_,” said the crone; “for all the medicine men have tried vainly, and how shall you?” Who acts: dah. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 97

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“\_In-dah\_,” said the crone; “for all the medicine men have tried vainly, and how shall you?”

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**Who acts:** dah · **What happens:** say, try · **To what, where:** crone · **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 (dah), 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:pg77804:25:97
# text = “_In-dah_,” said the crone; “for all the medicine men have tried vainly, and how shall you?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	dah	dah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	crone	crone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
21	vainly	vainly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | dah | the crone |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent crone=Topic |
| 2 | **try** *in a quote* | present · perfect | dah *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for all medicine men; vainly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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