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description: Then the elders said: “If that is so, teach us your Power, and we will set you free; but if not, you shall die.” Who acts: elders, that, we, you. 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 tre
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 97

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Then the elders said: “If that is so, teach us your Power, and we will set you free; but if not, you shall die.”

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**Who acts:** elders, that, we, you · **What happens:** say, be, teach, set, die · **To what, where:** Power, us, you · **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 (elders, that, we, you), 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:pg77804:34:99
# text = Then the elders said: “If that is so, teach us your Power, and we will set you free; but if not, you shall die.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	Power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the elders |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your Power | us |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient power=Topic |
| 4 | **set** *in a quote* | future | we | you |  |  |  | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient you=Result |
| 5 | **die** *in a quote* | shall | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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