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title: There is no duty to which a Pueblo child is trained in which he has… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: There is no duty to which a Pueblo child is trained in which he has to be content with the bare command, “Do thus”; for each he learns a fairy tale designed to explain how people first came to know that it was right to do thus, and detailing the sad results which befell those who did otherwise. Who 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 52

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There is no duty to which a Pueblo child is trained in which he has to be content with the bare command, “Do thus”; for each he learns a fairy tale designed to explain how people first came to know that it was right to do thus, and detailing the sad results which befell those who did otherwise.

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**Who acts:** duty, people, it, sad results · **What happens:** be, train, have, do, learn, design · **To what, where:** Pueblo child, fairy tale, sad results · **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 (duty, people, it, sad results), 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:pg77804:2:52
# text = There is no duty to which a Pueblo child is trained in which he has to be content with the bare command, “Do thus”; for each he learns a fairy tale designed to explain how people first came to know that it was right to do thus, and detailing the sad results which befell those who did otherwise.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Pueblo	Pueblo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
26	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	obl	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	learns	learn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	designed	design	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
39	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
40	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
41	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	42	advmod	_	_
42	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	ccomp	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
48	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	ccomp	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	csubj	_	_
51	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	detailing	detail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obj	_	_
58	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	59	nsubj	_	_
59	befell	befall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	acl:relcl	_	_
60	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	59	obj	_	_
61	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	62	nsubj	_	_
62	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	acl:relcl	_	_
63	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no duty |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **train** | present · passive |  | a Pueblo child |  |  |  | to no duty | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | duty |  |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | duty *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the bare command; content *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **learn** | present | duty | a fairy tale |  |  |  | for each | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Topic |
| 7 | **design** | participle |  | a fairy tale *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **explain** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **come** | past | people |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **know** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 11 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 12 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 13 | **detail** | gerund | duty *not said here* | the sad results |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent result=Theme |
| 14 | **befall** | past | the sad results | the sad results |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 15 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; otherwise *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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