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title: For now it is clear that big tails are not good to run with, since I… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: For now it is clear that big tails are not good to run with, since I have been waiting here a long time for you. Who acts: big tails, I. 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 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 52

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For now it is clear that big tails are not good to run with, since I have been waiting here a long time for you.

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**Who acts:** big tails, I · **What happens:** be, not be, run, wait

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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 (big tails, I), 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:pg77804:16:52
# text = For now it is clear that big tails are not good to run with, since I have been waiting here a long time for you.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	expl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	csubj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux	_	_
20	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
21	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | big tails |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wait** | present · perfect · progressive | I |  |  | here | time | for you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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