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title: Of its serious disrepute I can convey no better idea to the enlighte… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of its serious disrepute I can convey no better idea to the enlightened and superstitionless American mind than by saying that it is a sort of aboriginal “haunted house.” Who acts: I, _. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Th
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 19

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Of its serious disrepute I can convey no better idea to the enlightened and superstitionless American mind than by saying that it is a sort of aboriginal “haunted house.”

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**Who acts:** I, \_ · **What happens:** convey, enlighten, say, be, haunt · **To what, where:** better idea, enlightened American mind, sort · **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 Hungry Grandfathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, \_), 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:pg77804:32:19
# text = Of its serious disrepute I can convey no better idea to the enlightened and superstitionless American mind than by saying that it is a sort of aboriginal “haunted house.”
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	disrepute	disrepute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	convey	convey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	no	no	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
13	enlightened	enlighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	superstitionless	superstitionless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
18	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	haunted	haunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **convey** | can | I | better idea |  | the enlightened American mind |  | of \_'s serious disrepute | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent idea=Theme of disrepute=Initial\_Location to mind=Destination |
| 2 | **enlighten** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | \_ | a sort |  |  |  | of aboriginal haunted house | tree rules |
| 5 | **haunt** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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