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title: Among the Pueblos, any such peculiarity of nature--and particularly… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the Pueblos, any such peculiarity of nature--and particularly of animal life--is very sure to have a folk-story hung to it. Who acts: such peculiarity. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brave Bobtails, with its de
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 128

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Among the Pueblos, any such peculiarity of nature--and particularly of animal life--is very sure to have a folk-story hung to it.

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**Who acts:** such peculiarity · **What happens:** be, have, hang · **To what, where:** folk story, story

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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 (such peculiarity), 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:pg77804:26:130
# text = Among the Pueblos, any such peculiarity of nature--and particularly of animal life--is very sure to have a folk-story hung to it.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Pueblos	Pueblo	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	peculiarity	peculiarity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | any such peculiarity of nature and animal life |  |  |  |  | among the Pueblos; sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | any such peculiarity of nature and animal life *not said here* | a folk story |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient |
| 3 | **hang** | participle |  | a folk story *not said here* | story |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: 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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