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title: TO-NIGHT it is withered Diego[15] who begins with his story, in the… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: TO-NIGHT it is withered Diego[15] who begins with his story, in the musical but strange Tée-wahn tongue, of “Shée-choon t’o-ah-fuar.” A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The War-dance of the Mice, with its dependency tree and
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 1

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TO-NIGHT it is withered Diego\[15\] who begins with his story, in the musical but strange Tée-wahn tongue, of “Shée-choon t’o-ah-fuar.”

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**What happens:** wither, begin · **To what, where:** it, musical Tée wahn tongue

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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 War-dance of the Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg77804:5:1
# text = TO-NIGHT it is withered Diego[15] who begins with his story, in the musical but strange Tée-wahn tongue, of “Shée-choon t’o-ah-fuar.”
1	TO	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	NIGHT	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	withered	wither	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	Diego	Diego	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
19	musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	Tée	Tée	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	wahn	wahn	X	FW	_	25	compound	_	_
25	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Shée	Shée	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	choon	choon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	t’o	t'o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	36	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	fuar	fuar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wither** | present · passive |  | it |  | the musical Tée wahn tongue | night | 15 *obl*; Diego *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with Diego's story; who *nsubj* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with story=Subeventuality |

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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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