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title: “My wife, now I believe that Mouse-Old-Man _has_ the Power; and neve… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “My wife, now I believe that Mouse-Old-Man _has_ the Power; and never again will I think _that_ way.” Who acts: Badger, Old Man. 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 pragmat
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 87

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“My wife, now I believe that Mouse-Old-Man \_has\_ the Power; and never again will I think \_that\_ way.”

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**Who acts:** Badger, Old Man · **What happens:** believe, have, think · **To what, where:** Power, that · **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, 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, Old Man), 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:pg77804:34:89
# text = “My wife, now I believe that Mouse-Old-Man _has_ the Power; and never again will I think _that_ way.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** *in a quote* | present | the Badger *= badger* |  |  |  | now | My wife *parataxis* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Old Man | the Power |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | future | the Badger *= badger* | that |  |  | again; never | \_ way *obl:unmarked* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |

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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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