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title: So there was a Moon again--and that it _was_ the Moon, we may be ver… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: So there was a Moon again--and that it _was_ the Moon, we may be very sure; since this same girl became the mother of the Hero Twins, who were assuredly Children of the Moon. Who acts: Moon, same girl, mother. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Char
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 31

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So there was a Moon again--and that it \_was\_ the Moon, we may be very sure; since this same girl became the mother of the Hero Twins, who were assuredly Children of the Moon.

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**Who acts:** Moon, same girl, mother · **What happens:** be, become · **To what, where:** mother, Children

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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, A Pueblo Bluebeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon, same girl, mother), 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:pg77804:30:31
# text = So there was a Moon again--and that it _was_ the Moon, we may be very sure; since this same girl became the mother of the Hero Twins, who were assuredly Children of the Moon.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
23	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
25	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Hero	Hero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Twins	Twin	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	assuredly	assuredly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | may · past | Moon |  |  |  |  | we *nsubj*; sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | past | this same girl | the mother of the Hero Twins and Children |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the mother of the Hero Twins and Children | Children |  |  |  | of the Moon; assuredly *property* | tree rules |

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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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