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title: [103] Personal acquaintance with a spanking is what very few of them… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [103] Personal acquaintance with a spanking is what very few of them have. Who acts: 103 Personal acquaintance. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 4

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\[103\] Personal acquaintance with a spanking is what very few of them have.

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**Who acts:** 103 Personal acquaintance · **What happens:** be

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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 (103 Personal acquaintance), 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:pg77804:32:4
# text = [103] Personal acquaintance with a spanking is what very few of them have.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	103	103	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	spanking	spanking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | 103 Personal acquaintance with a spanking |  |  |  |  |  | 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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