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title: There is one of these comparatively modern nursery-tales which is de… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: There is one of these comparatively modern nursery-tales which is designed to show the honesty and wisdom of the Burro. Who acts: one. 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 prag
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 9

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There is one of these comparatively modern nursery-tales which is designed to show the honesty and wisdom of the Burro.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** be, design, show · **To what, where:** modern nursery tales, honesty

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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 (one), 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:pg77804:17:9
# text = There is one of these comparatively modern nursery-tales which is designed to show the honesty and wisdom of the Burro.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
6	comparatively	comparatively	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	designed	design	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	honesty	honesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Burro	Burro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | one of this modern nursery tales |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **design** | present · passive |  | this modern nursery tales |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **show** | to-infinitive |  | the honesty of the Burro and wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent honesty=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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