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title: And each city, with its fields, is a wee republic--twenty-six of the… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 9

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And each city, with its fields, is a wee republic--twenty-six of the smallest, and perhaps the oldest, republics in the world; for they were already such when the first European eyes saw America.

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**Who acts:** city, cities, first European eyes · **What happens:** be, see · **To what, where:** wee republic, America

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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 (city, cities, first European eyes), 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:pg77804:2:9
# text = And each city, with its fields, is a wee republic--twenty-six of the smallest, and perhaps the oldest, republics in the world; for they were already such when the first European eyes saw America.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	republics	republic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
31	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	already	already	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	41	advcl	_	_
36	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	41	advmod	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	40	amod	_	_
39	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
41	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
42	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | each city with size's fields | a wee republic |  |  |  | twenty six of the smallest and republics in the world *acl:relcl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | cities *= city* |  |  |  |  | such *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past | the first European eyes | America |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer america=Stimulus |

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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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