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title: “Is that so?” sighed all the boys in chorus, sorry that the story wa… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Is that so?” sighed all the boys in chorus, sorry that the story was so soon done. 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 every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 122

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“Is that so?” sighed all the boys in chorus, sorry that the story was so soon done.

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**What happens:** be, sigh, do · **To what, where:** that, boys, chorus, story

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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: 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:pg77804:8:123
# text = “Is that so?” sighed all the boys in chorus, sorry that the story was so soon done.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obl	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	sighed	sigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	chorus	chorus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 |  | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sigh** | past |  | all boys |  | chorus |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | past · passive |  | the story |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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