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title: If this dusky old playground for wrinkles, who never saw the inside… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: If this dusky old playground for wrinkles, who never saw the inside of a book, could write out all the fairy stories he knows, Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary would hardly hold them. Who acts: this, wrinkles, back, Unabridged Dictionary. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 96

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If this dusky old playground for wrinkles, who never saw the inside of a book, could write out all the fairy stories he knows, Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary would hardly hold them.

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**Who acts:** this, wrinkles, back, Unabridged Dictionary · **What happens:** playground, not see, write out, know, hold · **To what, where:** inside, fairy stories, 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: who acts (this, wrinkles, back, Unabridged Dictionary), 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:pg77804:2:97
# text = If this dusky old playground for wrinkles, who never saw the inside of a book, could write out all the fairy stories he knows, Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary would hardly hold them.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	dusky	dusky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	advcl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	wrinkles	wrinkle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	inside	inside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	write	write	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	Webster	Webster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	Unabridged	Unabridged	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Dictionary	Dictionary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **playground** *a condition, not said to happen* |  | this |  |  |  |  | for wrinkles | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **see** | past | wrinkles | the inside of a book |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer inside=Stimulus |
| 3 | **write out** | could |  | all fairy stories |  |  |  |  | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | present | back | all fairy stories *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 5 | **hold** | would | Webster's Unabridged Dictionary | stories *= story* |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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