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title: That current among the Pueblos makes the Rabbit the hero, by a trick… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: That current among the Pueblos makes the Rabbit the hero, by a trick rather cleverer than Æsop’s. Who acts: current. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Race of the Tails, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 2

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That current among the Pueblos makes the Rabbit the hero, by a trick rather cleverer than Æsop’s.

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**Who acts:** current · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** hero, Rabbit

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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 Race of the Tails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (current), 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:pg77804:16:2
# text = That current among the Pueblos makes the Rabbit the hero, by a trick rather cleverer than Æsop’s.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Pueblos	Pueblos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	cleverer	clever	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	parataxis	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | that current among the Pueblos | the hero | the Rabbit |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset rabbit=Beneficiary hero=Product |

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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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