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title: And to this very day they go with short tails, and are honored by al… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And to this very day they go with short tails, and are honored by all the animals, and by all True Believers. Who acts: Bear, animals. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brave Bobtails, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 124

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And to this very day they go with short tails, and are honored by all the animals, and by all True Believers.

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**Who acts:** Bear, animals · **What happens:** go, honor

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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 Brave Bobtails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bear, animals), 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:pg77804:26:125
# text = And to this very day they go with short tails, and are honored by all the animals, and by all True Believers.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	honored	honor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
23	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Believers	believer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Bear |  |  |  | day | with short tails | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with tail=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **honor** | present · passive | all animals |  |  |  |  | by all True Believers | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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