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title: Which of us is right, the one who observes Sunday and lets his _peon… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which of us is right, the one who observes Sunday and lets his _peons_ rest then, or he who does not?” Who acts: one, man. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, with its dependency tree and the
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 24

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Which of us is right, the one who observes Sunday and lets his \_peons\_ rest then, or he who does not?”

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**Who acts:** one, man · **What happens:** be, observe, let, not do · **To what, where:** \_ peons

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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 Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, man), 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:pg77804:25:24
# text = Which of us is right, the one who observes Sunday and lets his _peons_ rest then, or he who does not?”
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	observes	observe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	peons	peon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	_
18	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | then | Which of us *nsubj*; the one *appos*; right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **observe** | present | the one |  |  |  | sunday | rest *conj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **let** | present | the one *not said here* | man's \_ peons |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peon=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **do** | present | man |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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