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title: And to-day, if we would seek the place where fairy stories most flou… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And to-day, if we would seek the place where fairy stories most flourish, we must go, not to the nations whose countless educated minds are now devoted to story-telling for the young, but to peoples who have no books, no magazines, no alphabets--even no pictures. Who acts: we, fairy stories, story, 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 4

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And to-day, if we would seek the place where fairy stories most flourish, we must go, not to the nations whose countless educated minds are now devoted to story-telling for the young, but to peoples who have no books, no magazines, no alphabets--even no pictures.

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**Who acts:** we, fairy stories, story, peoples · **What happens:** seek, flourish, go, devote, tell, have · **To what, where:** place, countless educated minds, story, books · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (we, fairy stories, story, peoples), 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:pg77804:2:4
# text = And to-day, if we would seek the place where fairy stories most flourish, we must go, not to the nations whose countless educated minds are now devoted to story-telling for the young, but to peoples who have no books, no magazines, no alphabets--even no pictures.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
13	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	flourish	flourish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
26	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	29	nmod:poss	_	_
27	countless	countless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	educated	educated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	devoted	devote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	parataxis	_	_
44	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
45	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	_
46	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	47	det	_	_
47	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	50	det	_	_
50	magazines	magazine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	53	det	_	_
53	alphabets	alphabet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	even	even	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
56	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	57	det	_	_
57	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | would | we | the place |  |  | day | peoples and no magazines and no alphabets and no pictures *parataxis* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 2 | **flourish** |  | fairy stories |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | must | we |  |  |  |  | the nations *conj* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **devote** | present · passive |  | countless educated minds |  |  | now | to story *goal* | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme to story=Goal |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | story *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the young | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **have** | present | peoples and no magazines and no alphabets and no pictures | no books |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=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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