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title: THERE is a fragmentary Quères folk-story which bears internal eviden… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: THERE is a fragmentary Quères folk-story which bears internal evidence that its heroine was the mother of the Hero Twins--that is, the Moon. Who acts: Quères folk story, fragmentary, heroine, that. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 1

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THERE is a fragmentary Quères folk-story which bears internal evidence that its heroine was the mother of the Hero Twins--that is, the Moon.

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**Who acts:** Quères folk story, fragmentary, heroine, that · **What happens:** be, story · **To what, where:** bears, mother, Moon

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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 Quères Diana. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Quères folk story, fragmentary, heroine, 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:pg77804:29:1
# text = THERE is a fragmentary Quères folk-story which bears internal evidence that its heroine was the mother of the Hero Twins--that is, the Moon.
1	THERE	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	fragmentary	fragmentary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	Quères	Quères	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
9	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	10	det	_	_
10	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	internal	internal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	heroine	heroine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	acl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Hero	Hero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Twins	Twin	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | a Quères folk story and internal evidence |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **story** |  | fragmentary | which bears |  |  |  | internal evidence *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | fragmentary's heroine | the mother |  |  |  | of the Hero Twins | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | that | the Moon |  |  |  |  | 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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