---
title: It has always seemed to me that the boy who always wants to know “wh… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It has always seemed to me that the boy who always wants to know “why?” has a better time of it among my Indian friends than anywhere else. Who acts: story, boy. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brave Bobtails, with it
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/26/129/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The man who married the moon, and othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/) / [The Brave Bobtails](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/26/) / 129

# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 129

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It has always seemed to me that the boy who always wants to know “why?” has a better time of it among my Indian friends than anywhere else.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** story, boy · **What happens:** have, seem, want, know · **To what, where:** me

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (story, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:26:131
# text = It has always seemed to me that the boy who always wants to know “why?” has a better time of it among my Indian friends than anywhere else.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	12	advmod	_	_
12	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
19	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	among	among	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	28	advmod	_	_
31	else	else	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | story |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | past | story *not said here* |  | me |  |  | always *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **want** | present | the boy |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **have** | present | the boy |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/26/128/)
- next →: [sentence 130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/26/130/)
- ↑ back to [The Brave Bobtails](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/26/)