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title: [81] This mention of the horse is, of course, modern. — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [81] This mention of the horse is, of course, modern. Who acts: mention. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, 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 Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 37

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\[81\] This mention of the horse is, of course, modern.

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**Who acts:** mention · **What happens:** be, mention · **To what, where:** 81, horse

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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 Ants That Pushed on the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mention), 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:pg77804:24:37
# text = [81] This mention of the horse is, of course, modern.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	81	81	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	mention	mention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | this mention of the horse |  |  |  |  | modern *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **mention** |  |  | the horse |  |  |  |  | nom mention «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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