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title: In the last two years I have seen one spoiled child--just one, in te… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the last two years I have seen one spoiled child--just one, in ten years’ acquaintance with 9000 Pueblos! Who acts: I, ten years. 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 th
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 8

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In the last two years I have seen one spoiled child--just one, in ten years’ acquaintance with 9000 Pueblos!

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**Who acts:** I, ten years · **What happens:** see, spoil, acquaint · **To what, where:** one spoiled child, acquaintance

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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, ten years), 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:pg77804:32:8
# text = In the last two years I have seen one spoiled child--just one, in ten years’ acquaintance with 9000 Pueblos!
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	spoiled	spoil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	9000	9000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	_
23	Pueblos	Pueblos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · perfect | I | one spoiled child |  | ten years's acquaintance with 9000  Pueblos | year |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 2 | **spoil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **acquaint** |  | ten years |  |  |  |  |  | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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