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title: And he is one of the drollest, “cutest,” wisest-looking creatures on… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he is one of the drollest, “cutest,” wisest-looking creatures on earth. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 3

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And he is one of the drollest, “cutest,” wisest-looking creatures on earth.

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**Who acts:** donkey · **What happens:** be, look · **To what, where:** one

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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:pg77804:17:3
# text = And he is one of the drollest, “cutest,” wisest-looking creatures on earth.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	drollest	droll	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	cutest	cut	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
13	wisest	wise	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | donkey | one |  |  |  | of the drollest  wisest looking creatures | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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