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title: An unhappy home is almost an unknown thing among them; and the unive… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: An unhappy home is almost an unknown thing among them; and the universal affection of parents for children and respect of children for parents are extraordinary. Who acts: unhappy home, parents. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lu
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 28

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An unhappy home is almost an unknown thing among them; and the universal affection of parents for children and respect of children for parents are extraordinary.

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**Who acts:** unhappy home, parents · **What happens:** be, respect · **To what, where:** unknown thing, children

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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 Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unhappy home, parents), 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:pg77804:2:28
# text = An unhappy home is almost an unknown thing among them; and the universal affection of parents for children and respect of children for parents are extraordinary.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	universal	universal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a unhappy home | a unknown thing |  |  |  | among women *= woman*; the universal affection of parents for children and respect of children *appos*; almost *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | parents |  |  |  |  | extraordinary *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **respect** |  |  | children |  |  |  |  | nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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