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title: In a case which I knew of, years ago, this folk-story seems to have… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a case which I knew of, years ago, this folk-story seems to have given a hint to human racers. Who acts: I, folk story. 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
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 56

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In a case which I knew of, years ago, this folk-story seems to have given a hint to human racers.

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**Who acts:** I, folk story · **What happens:** know, seem, give · **To what, where:** case, hint, human racers

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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 (I, folk story), 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:pg77804:16:57
# text = In a case which I knew of, years ago, this folk-story seems to have given a hint to human racers.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
13	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	xcomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hint	hint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	racers	racer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | I | a case |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 2 | **seem** | present | this folk story |  |  | a case |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive · perfect | this folk story *not said here* | a hint | human racers |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hint=Theme to racer=Recipient |

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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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