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title: By this time, however, having lived long among the kindly Pueblos, I… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: By this time, however, having lived long among the kindly Pueblos, I had shaken off that strange, ignorant prejudice against all that is unknown--which seems to be inborn in all of us--and wondered that I could ever have believed in that brutal maxim, worthy only of worse than savages, that “A good 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 5

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By this time, however, having lived long among the kindly Pueblos, I had shaken off that strange, ignorant prejudice against all that is unknown--which seems to be inborn in all of us--and wondered that I could ever have believed in that brutal maxim, worthy only of worse than savages, that “A good Indian is a dead Indian.”

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**Who acts:** I, that · **What happens:** live, shake off, be, seem, wonder, believe · **To what, where:** Pueblos, strange ignorant prejudice, all, brutal maxim · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 Revenge of the Fawns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that), 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:pg77804:27:5
# text = By this time, however, having lived long among the kindly Pueblos, I had shaken off that strange, ignorant prejudice against all that is unknown--which seems to be inborn in all of us--and wondered that I could ever have believed in that brutal maxim, worthy only of worse than savages, that “A good Indian is a dead Indian.”
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
8	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
10	among	among	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	Pueblos	Pueblos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	shaken	shake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
20	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	ignorant	ignorant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	prejudice	prejudice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	against	against	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
34	inborn	inborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
43	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
44	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
45	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	47	advmod	_	_
46	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	aux	_	_
47	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	41	advcl	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	51	det	_	_
50	brutal	brutal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	maxim	maxim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	appos	_	_
54	only	only	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	53	parataxis	_	_
57	than	than	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	savages	savage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
60	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	68	nsubj	_	_
61	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	68	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
63	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	68	nsubj	_	_
65	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	68	cop	_	_
66	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
67	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	68	amod	_	_
68	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund · perfect |  |  |  | the Pueblos | time | however, long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among pueblos=Location |
| 2 | **shake off** | past · perfect | I | strange ignorant prejudice  that |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent prejudice=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | unknown *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **seem** | present |  |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | all of us |  | inborn *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **believe** | could · perfect | I |  |  | that brutal maxim | ever |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  | indian *property* | tree rules |

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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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