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title: These inconveniences were gladly borne, however, since they preserve… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: These inconveniences were gladly borne, however, since they preserved the children--and we all know that preserved baby is better than baby-stew. Who acts: inconveniences, we, preserved baby. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummi
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 40

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These inconveniences were gladly borne, however, since they preserved the children--and we all know that preserved baby is better than baby-stew.

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**Who acts:** inconveniences, we, preserved baby · **What happens:** bear, preserve, know, be · **To what, where:** inconveniences, children · **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 (inconveniences, we, preserved baby), 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:pg77804:32:40
# text = These inconveniences were gladly borne, however, since they preserved the children--and we all know that preserved baby is better than baby-stew.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	inconveniences	inconvenience	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	however	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	ccomp	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	stew	stew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | this inconveniences |  |  |  | gladly, however *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **preserve** | past | inconveniences *= inconvenience* |  | the children |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **know** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **preserve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | preserved baby |  |  |  |  | than baby stew; good *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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