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title: But the story is very valuable, not only for the glimpse it affords… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the story is very valuable, not only for the glimpse it affords of some of their most secret beliefs, but also as showing how folk-stories of the most aboriginal stamp are still coined. Who acts: story, survivors. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories»
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 123

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But the story is very valuable, not only for the glimpse it affords of some of their most secret beliefs, but also as showing how folk-stories of the most aboriginal stamp are still coined.

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**Who acts:** story, survivors · **What happens:** be, afford, show, coin, believe · **To what, where:** glimpse, folk stories · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 Drowning of Pecos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, survivors), 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:pg77804:23:123
# text = But the story is very valuable, not only for the glimpse it affords of some of their most secret beliefs, but also as showing how folk-stories of the most aboriginal stamp are still coined.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	affords	afford	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
20	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	beliefs	belief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	also	also	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
28	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	34	advmod	_	_
34	aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	stamp	stamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
36	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
37	still	still	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	coined	coin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the story |  |  |  |  | for the glimpse; valuable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **afford** | present | story | the glimpse *not said here* |  |  |  | of some of survivors's most secret beliefs | tree rules |
| 3 | **show** | gerund | the story *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **coin** | present · passive |  | folk stories of the aboriginal stamp |  |  | still |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 5 | **believe** |  | survivors *= survivor* |  |  |  |  |  | nom belief «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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