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title: One of the minor differences, but one which would be almost the firs… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the minor differences, but one which would be almost the first to strike a stranger, is the absence of captive eagles in Moqui; and this is explained by the following folk-story: Who acts: folk story. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charle
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui\[72\] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 8

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One of the minor differences, but one which would be almost the first to strike a stranger, is the absence of captive eagles in Moqui; and this is explained by the following folk-story:

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**Who acts:** folk story · **What happens:** be, strike, explain, follow · **To what, where:** stranger, absence, this, One

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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 Moqui\[72\] Boy and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (folk story), 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:pg77804:20:8
# text = One of the minor differences, but one which would be almost the first to strike a stranger, is the absence of captive eagles in Moqui; and this is explained by the following folk-story:
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	minor	minor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	differences	difference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
12	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	appos	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	captive	captive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Moqui	Moqui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	explained	explain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
35	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	case	_	_
36	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; almost, first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **strike** | to-infinitive |  | a stranger |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the absence |  |  |  | of captive eagles in Moqui | tree rules |
| 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present · passive | the folk story | this |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 5 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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