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title: An Indian telling fairy stories? — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: An Indian telling fairy stories? 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 clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 93

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An Indian telling fairy stories?

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**To what, where:** Indian fairy stories

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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: 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:pg77804:2:94
# text = An Indian telling fairy stories?
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	telling	telling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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