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title: But, _ay de mi_! — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But, _ay de mi_! 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 every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 26

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But, \_ay de mi\_!

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**To what, where:** ay

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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: 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:pg77804:32:26
# text = But, _ay de mi_!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ay	ay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
6	mi	mi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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