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title: “Is _that_ the reason?” ask all the boys, who have been listening wi… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Is _that_ the reason?” ask all the boys, who have been listening with big black eyes intent. Who acts: _, boys. 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 the pragmatics of ev
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 27

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“Is \_that\_ the reason?” ask all the boys, who have been listening with big black eyes intent.

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**Who acts:** \_, boys · **What happens:** be, \_, ask, listen · **To what, where:** \_, reason · **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, 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: who acts (\_, boys), 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:pg77804:5:28
# text = “Is _that_ the reason?” ask all the boys, who have been listening with big black eyes intent.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux	_	_
18	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	acl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	compound	_	_
23	intent	intent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | \_ |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **\_** *in a quote* | present | \_ | the reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | all boys |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **listen** | present · perfect · progressive | all boys |  |  |  |  | with eyes intent | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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