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title: Most of these myths were made centuries before a white man ever saw… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Most of these myths were made centuries before a white man ever saw this country; and until Europeans came, there were neither horses, donkeys, sheep, goats, cats, nor cattle (except the buffalo) in either America. Who acts: white man, Europeans, horses. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 5

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Most of these myths were made centuries before a white man ever saw this country; and until Europeans came, there were neither horses, donkeys, sheep, goats, cats, nor cattle (except the buffalo) in either America.

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**Who acts:** white man, Europeans, horses · **What happens:** make, see, come, be · **To what, where:** Most myths, country

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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 (white man, Europeans, horses), 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:pg77804:17:5
# text = Most of these myths were made centuries before a white man ever saw this country; and until Europeans came, there were neither horses, donkeys, sheep, goats, cats, nor cattle (except the buffalo) in either America.
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
13	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	Europeans	European	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
24	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	36	cc	_	_
36	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
37	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	except	except	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	40	punct	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc:preconj	_	_
44	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | this Most myths |  |  | century |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **see** | past | a white man | this country |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer country=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | past | Europeans |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | past | horses in America and donkeys and sheep and goats and cats nor cattle |  |  | there |  | neither *property* | 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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