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title: [89] Not compounding remedies, but going through the magic dance and… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [89] Not compounding remedies, but going through the magic dance and incantations to which the Indians always resort in time of trouble. Who acts: Indians. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brave Bobtails, with its depe
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 114

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\[89\] Not compounding remedies, but going through the magic dance and incantations to which the Indians always resort in time of trouble.

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**Who acts:** Indians · **What happens:** not compound, go, resort · **To what, where:** remedies, magic dance

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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 Brave Bobtails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians), 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:pg77804:26:115
# text = [89] Not compounding remedies, but going through the magic dance and incantations to which the Indians always resort in time of trouble.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	89	89	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	compounding	compound	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	remedies	remedy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	incantations	incantation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
21	resort	resort	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	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 | **not** **compound** | gerund |  | remedies |  |  |  | 89 *discourse* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remedy=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  | the magic dance and incantations |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through dance=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **resort** | present | the Indians |  |  |  | time | to incantations; always *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to which=Result |

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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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