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title: Their teeth were just like anybody’s good teeth, and they had neithe… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Their teeth were just like anybody’s good teeth, and they had neither “tushes” nor horns nor hoofs. Who acts: teeth. 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 and the pragmatics of 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 24

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Their teeth were just like anybody’s good teeth, and they had neither “tushes” nor horns nor hoofs.

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**Who acts:** teeth · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** tushes

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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 (teeth), 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:pg77804:32:24
# text = Their teeth were just like anybody’s good teeth, and they had neither “tushes” nor horns nor hoofs.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	tushes	tush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	19	cc	_	_
19	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	21	cc	_	_
21	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | men's teeth |  |  |  |  | like anybody's good teeth; anybody *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | teeth *= tooth* | tushes nor horns nor hoofs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tush=Patient |

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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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