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title: A word is generally enough; and for extreme cases it only needs the… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: A word is generally enough; and for extreme cases it only needs the threat: “Look out, or I will send for the Grandfathers!” Who acts: word, I. 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 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 6

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A word is generally enough; and for extreme cases it only needs the threat: “Look out, or I will send for the Grandfathers!”

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**Who acts:** word, I · **What happens:** be, need, look out, send · **To what, where:** threat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (word, I), 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:pg77804:32:6
# text = A word is generally enough; and for extreme cases it only needs the threat: “Look out, or I will send for the Grandfathers!”
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	extreme	extreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	threat	threat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Grandfathers	grandfather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a word |  |  |  |  | enough, generally *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | present | word | the threat |  |  |  | for extreme cases | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot threat=Theme |
| 3 | **look out** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **send** *in a quote* | future | I |  |  |  |  | for the Grandfathers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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