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title: Ignorance of this fact has caused serious blunders on the part of hi… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ignorance of this fact has caused serious blunders on the part of historians unfamiliar with the country of which they wrote. Who acts: Ignorance, blunders. 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
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 95

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Ignorance of this fact has caused serious blunders on the part of historians unfamiliar with the country of which they wrote.

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**Who acts:** Ignorance, blunders · **What happens:** cause, write, ignore · **To what, where:** serious blunders, part, fact

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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 (Ignorance, blunders), 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:pg77804:25:95
# text = Ignorance of this fact has caused serious blunders on the part of historians unfamiliar with the country of which they wrote.
1	Ignorance	ignorance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	blunders	blunder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	historians	historian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	unfamiliar	unfamiliar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | present · perfect | Ignorance of this fact | serious blunders |  | the part of historians |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition blunder=Patient |
| 2 | **write** | past | blunders *= blunder* |  |  |  |  | of the country | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ignore** |  |  | this fact |  |  |  |  | nom ignorance «cognition 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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