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title: “I gain it,” he answered, “by going about among the animals who are… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “I gain it,” he answered, “by going about among the animals who are sick, and curing them.” Who acts: T’hoo, animals. 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 ever
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 96

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“I gain it,” he answered, “by going about among the animals who are sick, and curing them.”

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**Who acts:** T’hoo, animals · **What happens:** gain, answer, go about, be, cure · **To what, where:** life, animals · **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 (T’hoo, animals), 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:pg77804:34:98
# text = “I gain it,” he answered, “by going about among the animals who are sick, and curing them.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gain	gain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	ccomp	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	curing	cure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** *in a quote* | present | T’hoo *= t'hoo* | life |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | T’hoo *= t'hoo* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go about** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | among the animals; about *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the animals |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **cure** *in a quote* | gerund | T’hoo *= t'hoo* *not said here* | animals *= animal* |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer they=Source |

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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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