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title: _Whib_ is an aboriginal foot-race in which the runners have to carry… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: _Whib_ is an aboriginal foot-race in which the runners have to carry a stick with their toes. Who acts: Whib, runners. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brown Story-tellers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 36

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\_Whib\_ is an aboriginal foot-race in which the runners have to carry a stick with their toes.

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**Who acts:** Whib, runners · **What happens:** be, have, carry · **To what, where:** aboriginal foot race, stick

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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 (Whib, runners), 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:pg77804:2:36
# text = _Whib_ is an aboriginal foot-race in which the runners have to carry a stick with their toes.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Whib	Whib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	runners	runner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Whib | a aboriginal foot race |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | the runners |  |  | a aboriginal foot race |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** | to-infinitive | the runners *not said here* | a stick |  |  |  | with runners's toes | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=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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