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title: He was one of “the oldest inhabitants” of New Mexico--older than any… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: He was one of “the oldest inhabitants” of New Mexico--older than any other Indian among the twelve hundred of Isleta, except tottering Diego; and that is saying a great deal. Who acts: child, 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 Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 49

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He was one of “the oldest inhabitants” of New Mexico--older than any other Indian among the twelve hundred of Isleta, except tottering Diego; and that is saying a great deal.

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**Who acts:** child, that · **What happens:** be, totter, say · **To what, where:** one, Diego, great deal · **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 (child, 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:pg77804:32:49
# text = He was one of “the oldest inhabitants” of New Mexico--older than any other Indian among the twelve hundred of Isleta, except tottering Diego; and that is saying a great deal.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	parataxis	_	_
15	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
19	among	among	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	compound	_	_
22	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	except	except	ADP	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	tottering	totter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	appos	_	_
28	Diego	Diego	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | child | one |  |  |  | of the oldest inhabitants of New Mexico | tree rules |
| 2 | **totter** | gerund |  | Diego |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location diego=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | that | a great deal |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent deal=Topic |

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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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