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title: I have been extremely careful to preserve, in my translations, the e… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: I have been extremely careful to preserve, in my translations, the exact Indian _spirit_. Who acts: I, my. 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 of every clau
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 55

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I have been extremely careful to preserve, in my translations, the exact Indian \_spirit\_.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** be, preserve, translate

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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 (I, my), 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:pg77804:2:55
# text = I have been extremely careful to preserve, in my translations, the exact Indian _spirit_.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
4	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	translations	translation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | my translations and the exact Indian spirit *appos*; careful, extremely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **preserve** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **translate** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom translation «communication intransitive»: poss=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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