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title: “Now I will _see_ if Old T’hoo-chée-deh is really a medicine-man. — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now I will _see_ if Old T’hoo-chée-deh is really a medicine-man. Who acts: Badger, T’hoo chée deh. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Doctor Field-mouse, 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, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 66

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“Now I will \_see\_ if Old T’hoo-chée-deh is really a medicine-man.

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**Who acts:** Badger, T’hoo chée deh · **What happens:** \_, see, be · **To what, where:** medicine man

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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, Doctor Field-mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Badger, T’hoo chée deh), 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:pg77804:34:67
# text = “Now I will _see_ if Old T’hoo-chée-deh is really a medicine-man.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	_	_	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
9	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	T’hoo	T'hoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	chée	chée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	deh	deh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
16	really	really	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **\_** *in a quote* | future | Badger |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | Badger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | T’hoo chée deh | a medicine man |  |  |  |  | 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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