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title: A Mexican who owned a large and very fleet-footed burro, challenged… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: A Mexican who owned a large and very fleet-footed burro, challenged a young Indian of Acoma to a ten-mile race. Who acts: Mexican. 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 pr
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 57

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A Mexican who owned a large and very fleet-footed burro, challenged a young Indian of Acoma to a ten-mile race.

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**Who acts:** Mexican · **What happens:** own, challenge · **To what, where:** large footed burro

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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 (Mexican), 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:pg77804:16:58
# text = A Mexican who owned a large and very fleet-footed burro, challenged a young Indian of Acoma to a ten-mile race.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mexican	Mexican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
6	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	fleet	fleet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	footed	footed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	burro	burro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	challenged	challenge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Acoma	Acoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | past | a Mexican | a large footed burro |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot burro=Theme |
| 2 | **challenge** | past | a Mexican *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a mile race; indian *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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