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description: Indeed, except for their unusual size, they would have been easily mistaken for Indians of some distant tribe. 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 pra
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 25

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Indeed, except for their unusual size, they would have been easily mistaken for Indians of some distant tribe.

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**Who acts:** teeth · **What happens:** be

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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:pg77804:32:25
# text = Indeed, except for their unusual size, they would have been easily mistaken for Indians of some distant tribe.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	except	except	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	unusual	unusual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
13	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	mistaken	mistaken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
19	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would · perfect | teeth *= tooth* |  |  |  |  | except teeth's unusual size; for Indians of some distant tribe; easily, indeed, mistaken *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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