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title: “That is so; and it is as true for people as for birds. — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “That is so; and it is as true for people as for birds. Who acts: That. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, 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 Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 40

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“That is so; and it is as true for people as for birds.

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**Who acts:** That · **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 Coyote and the Woodpecker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That), 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:pg77804:9:41
# text = “That is so; and it is as true for people as for birds.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | That |  |  |  |  | for people; as birds; kah *nsubj*; true *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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