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title: It is a short story, but one of the most poetic and beautiful in all… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a short story, but one of the most poetic and beautiful in all the pretty folk-lore of the Pueblos. Who acts: Moon. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Mother Moon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 2

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It is a short story, but one of the most poetic and beautiful in all the pretty folk-lore of the Pueblos.

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**Who acts:** Moon · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** short 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 Mother Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon), 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:pg77804:11:2
# text = It is a short story, but one of the most poetic and beautiful in all the pretty folk-lore of the Pueblos.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	appos	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	poetic	poetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Pueblos	Pueblo	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Moon | a short story |  |  |  | one *appos* | 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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