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title: This dear old man--news of his death has come to me as I write this… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: This dear old man--news of his death has come to me as I write this very chapter--was a remarkable character. Who acts: This, dear old man, I, child. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers, with its depen
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 48

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This dear old man--news of his death has come to me as I write this very chapter--was a remarkable character.

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**Who acts:** This, dear old man, I, child · **What happens:** man, come, write, be, die · **To what, where:** me, chapter, remarkable character

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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 (This, dear old man, I, child), 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:pg77804:32:48
# text = This dear old man--news of his death has come to me as I write this very chapter--was a remarkable character.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	write	write	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **man** |  | This |  |  |  |  | news of child's death *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present · perfect | dear old man and news of child's death |  | me |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **write** | present | I | this chapter |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chapter=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | a remarkable character |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **die** |  | child |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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