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title: You have those round things, which are good to eat, but what I took… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: You have those round things, which are good to eat, but what I took home we cannot eat at all, neither my wife nor I.” Who acts: You, round things, I, we. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Bear[17], with 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear\[17\], sentence 16

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You have those round things, which are good to eat, but what I took home we cannot eat at all, neither my wife nor I.”

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**Who acts:** You, round things, I, we · **What happens:** have, be, eat, take, not eat · **To what, where:** round things, all

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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 and the Bear\[17\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, round things, I, we), 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:pg77804:7:16
# text = You have those round things, which are good to eat, but what I took home we cannot eat at all, neither my wife nor I.”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	conj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	home	home	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	27	cc:preconj	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
28	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	29	cc	_	_
29	I.	i.	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | You | that round things |  |  |  | what *conj*; my wife  I. *parataxis* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | that round things |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | that round things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | past | I |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **eat** | can | we |  |  | all |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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