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title: [27] This same spell is still used here by the _Hee-but-hái_, or sna… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [27] This same spell is still used here by the _Hee-but-hái_, or snake-charmers. Who acts: snake charmers. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of the Rattlesnakes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 109

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\[27\] This same spell is still used here by the \_Hee-but-hái\_, or snake-charmers.

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**Who acts:** snake charmers · **What happens:** use · **To what, where:** 27

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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 First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake charmers), 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:pg77804:8:110
# text = [27] This same spell is still used here by the _Hee-but-hái_, or snake-charmers.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Hee	Hee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	hái	hái	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	charmers	charmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · passive | the snake charmers  Hee | 27 |  | here | still | this same spell *nsubj:pass* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |

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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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