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title: I have never seen a child unkindly treated, a parent saucily address… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: I have never seen a child unkindly treated, a parent saucily addressed, or a playmate abused, in all my long and intimate acquaintance with the Pueblos. Who acts: I, my. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brown Story-tel
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 29

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I have never seen a child unkindly treated, a parent saucily addressed, or a playmate abused, in all my long and intimate acquaintance with the Pueblos.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** not see, treat, address, abuse, acquaint · **To what, where:** child, parent, long acquaintance, playmate

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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 (I, my), 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:pg77804:2:29
# text = I have never seen a child unkindly treated, a parent saucily addressed, or a playmate abused, in all my long and intimate acquaintance with the Pueblos.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	unkindly	unkindly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	saucily	saucily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	addressed	address	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	playmate	playmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	abused	abuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	intimate	intimate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Pueblos	Pueblo	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | present · perfect | I | a child |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 2 | **treat** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unkindly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **address** | participle · passive |  | a parent |  | my long acquaintance with the Pueblos |  | a playmate *obl*; saucily *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 4 | **abuse** | participle |  | a playmate *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **acquaint** |  | my |  |  |  |  | with the Pueblos | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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