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title: He is very small,--not more than half the weight of a smallish mule,… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: He is very small,--not more than half the weight of a smallish mule,--but very strong, very sure-footed, and very reliable. Who acts: donkey. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Honest Big-ears, with its dependency tree and t
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 2

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He is very small,--not more than half the weight of a smallish mule,--but very strong, very sure-footed, and very reliable.

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**Who acts:** donkey · **What happens:** be, not be

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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, Honest Big-ears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (donkey), 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:pg77804:17:2
# text = He is very small,--not more than half the weight of a smallish mule,--but very strong, very sure-footed, and very reliable.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	smallish	smallish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	footed	footed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	reliable	reliable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | donkey |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **be** |  | donkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than half weight of a smallish mule | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | donkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | donkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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