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title: It is from this wonderful folk-lore of the Tée-wahn that I have lear… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is from this wonderful folk-lore of the Tée-wahn that I have learned--after long study of the people, their language, customs, and myths--and taken, unchanged and unembellished, this series of Indian fairy tales. Who acts: much, I. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Ind
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 54

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It is from this wonderful folk-lore of the Tée-wahn that I have learned--after long study of the people, their language, customs, and myths--and taken, unchanged and unembellished, this series of Indian fairy tales.

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**Who acts:** much, I · **What happens:** be, learn, take, study · **To what, where:** wonderful folk lore, Tée wahn, people

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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 (much, I), 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:pg77804:2:54
# text = It is from this wonderful folk-lore of the Tée-wahn that I have learned--after long study of the people, their language, customs, and myths--and taken, unchanged and unembellished, this series of Indian fairy tales.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
5	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Tée	Tée	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	wahn	wahn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	unchanged	unchanged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	unembellished	unembellished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
42	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
45	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | much |  |  | wonderful folk lore and myths and this series of Indian fairy tales |  | of the Tée wahn; this *nsubj*; people's language and customs *appos*; myths *conj*; this series of Indian fairy tales *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **learn** | present · perfect | I | the Tée wahn |  |  | after long study of the people |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 3 | **take** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **study** |  |  | the people |  |  |  |  | nom study «act transitive»: of=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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