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title: A people less observant, less accurate of speech and of memory, woul… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: A people less observant, less accurate of speech and of memory, would make a sad failure of this sort of record; but with them it is a wonderful success. Who acts: people, failure, sort. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Th
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 61

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A people less observant, less accurate of speech and of memory, would make a sad failure of this sort of record; but with them it is a wonderful success.

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**Who acts:** people, failure, sort · **What happens:** make, be, fail, sort · **To what, where:** sad failure, wonderful success, record

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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 (people, failure, sort), 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:pg77804:2:61
# text = A people less observant, less accurate of speech and of memory, would make a sad failure of this sort of record; but with them it is a wonderful success.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
3	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	observant	observant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	accurate	accurate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	failure	failure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | would | a people and less observant | a sad failure of this sort of record |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent failure=Product |
| 2 | **is a** | present | failure | a wonderful success |  |  |  | with people | tree rules |
| 3 | **fail** |  | this sort of record |  |  |  |  |  | nom failure «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **sort** |  |  | record |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition 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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