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title: [108] Of course chickens and cheeses were not known to the Pueblos b… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [108] Of course chickens and cheeses were not known to the Pueblos before the Spanish conquest; and the cheese is so vital a part of the story that I hardly think it can be an interpolation. Who acts: cheese, I. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Ch
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 85

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\[108\] Of course chickens and cheeses were not known to the Pueblos before the Spanish conquest; and the cheese is so vital a part of the story that I hardly think it can be an interpolation.

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**Who acts:** cheese, I · **What happens:** not know, be, think · **To what, where:** 108, story, interpolation · **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 Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cheese, 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:pg77804:33:85
# text = [108] Of course chickens and cheeses were not known to the Pueblos before the Spanish conquest; and the cheese is so vital a part of the story that I hardly think it can be an interpolation.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	108	108	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	cheeses	cheese	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Pueblos	Pueblos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	vital	vital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
36	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	cop	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	interpolation	interpolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | past · passive |  | 108 of course chickens and cheeses |  |  | before the Spanish conquest | to the Pueblos | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 2 | **is** | present | the cheese |  |  |  |  | a part of the story *nsubj*; vital *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I | the story |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | can | cheese | a interpolation |  |  |  |  | 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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