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title: Indian etiquette is very strict upon this point--as well as upon all… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Indian etiquette is very strict upon this point--as well as upon all others. Who acts: Indian etiquette. 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 every clau
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 31

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Indian etiquette is very strict upon this point--as well as upon all others.

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**Who acts:** Indian etiquette · **What happens:** be

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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 (Indian etiquette), 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:pg77804:5:32
# text = Indian etiquette is very strict upon this point--as well as upon all others.
1	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	etiquette	etiquette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	strict	strict	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	15	cc	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	fixed	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Indian etiquette |  |  |  |  | upon this point upon all others; strict *property* | tree rules |

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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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