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title: For there is always sure to be a why, and an interesting one--which… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: For there is always sure to be a why, and an interesting one--which is much more satisfactory than only learning that “it’s bedtime now,” or that “I’m busy.” Who acts: interesting one, Sun. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis,
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 130

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For there is always sure to be a why, and an interesting one--which is much more satisfactory than only learning that “it’s bedtime now,” or that “I’m busy.”

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**Who acts:** interesting one, Sun · **What happens:** be, learn

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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 (interesting one, Sun), 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:pg77804:26:132
# text = For there is always sure to be a why, and an interesting one--which is much more satisfactory than only learning that “it’s bedtime now,” or that “I’m busy.”
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	much	much	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	satisfactory	satisfactory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
21	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
28	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’m	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
37	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  | there |  | a interesting one *ccomp*; always, sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | a interesting one |  |  |  |  | satisfactory *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **learn** | gerund | a interesting one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* | present | Sun and Arrow *= sun* |  |  |  |  | busy *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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