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title: For Indians are men, after all, and astonishingly like the rest of u… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: For Indians are men, after all, and astonishingly like the rest of us when one really comes to know them. Who acts: one. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Revenge of the Fawns, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 6

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For Indians are men, after all, and astonishingly like the rest of us when one really comes to know them.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** be, come, know · **To what, where:** men

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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 Revenge of the Fawns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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:pg77804:27:6
# text = For Indians are men, after all, and astonishingly like the rest of us when one really comes to know them.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	astonishingly	astonishingly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	_
18	really	really	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | men and the rest of us |  |  | after all | for Indians; the rest of us *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | one |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | to-infinitive | one *not said here* | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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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