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title: [14] _Ai nana_ is an exclamation always used by mourners. — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [14] _Ai nana_ is an exclamation always used by mourners. Who acts: nana _. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Crows, 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, The Coyote and the Crows, sentence 19

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\[14\] \_Ai nana\_ is an exclamation always used by mourners.

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**Who acts:** nana \_ · **What happens:** be, use · **To what, where:** exclamation, 14

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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 Coyote and the Crows. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nana \_), 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:pg77804:4:19
# text = [14] _Ai nana_ is an exclamation always used by mourners.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	nana	nana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	exclamation	exclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	12	advmod	_	_
12	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	mourners	mourner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | nana \_ | a exclamation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  | a exclamation *not said here* |  |  |  | by mourners; always *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: 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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