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title: It has nothing to do with the “truly” grandpa, who is as lovely an i… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It has nothing to do with the “truly” grandpa, who is as lovely an institution among the Tée-wahn as anywhere else. Who acts: youngster. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers, with its dependency tree an
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 10

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It has nothing to do with the “truly” grandpa, who is as lovely an institution among the Tée-wahn as anywhere else.

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**Who acts:** youngster · **What happens:** have, do, be · **To what, where:** nothing

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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 Hungry Grandfathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngster), 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:pg77804:32:10
# text = It has nothing to do with the “truly” grandpa, who is as lovely an institution among the Tée-wahn as anywhere else.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	institution	institution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	among	among	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	Tée	Tée	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	wahn	wahn	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	conj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
26	else	else	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | youngster | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | youngster *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  | with the grandpa; anywhere *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | a institution *obl:unmarked*; who *nsubj*; lovely *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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