--- title: Long before Cadmus invented letters (and I fear Cadmus himself was a… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: Long before Cadmus invented letters (and I fear Cadmus himself was as much of a myth as was his dragon’s-teeth harvest), long before there were true historians or poets, there were fairy stories and story-tellers. Who acts: Cadmus, I, dragon’s, true historians. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cadmus, I, dragon’s, true historians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:2:3 # text = Long before Cadmus invented letters (and I fear Cadmus himself was as much of a myth as was his dragon’s-teeth harvest), long before there were true historians or poets, there were fairy stories and story-tellers. 1 Long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 2 before before SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 Cadmus Cadmus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 invented invent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 fear fear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 Cadmus Cadmus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 as as ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 dragon’s dragon' NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 compound _ _ 24 harvest harvest NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ _ 28 before before SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 30 expl _ _ 30 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 historians historian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 poets poet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 37 expl _ _ 37 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 38 fairy fairy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 tellers teller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **invent** | past | Cadmus | letters | | | | long *property* | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Result | | 2 | **fear** | present | I | Cadmus | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cadmus=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | past | Cadmus | | | | | of a myth; much *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | past | Cadmus's dragon’s | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **be** | past | true historians or poets | | | there | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **be** | past | fairy stories and story tellers | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/2/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/2/4/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Story-tellers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/2/)