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title: [33] The slab of lava which still serves as a hand-mill in Pueblo ho… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [33] The slab of lava which still serves as a hand-mill in Pueblo houses. Who acts: lava. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 30

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\[33\] The slab of lava which still serves as a hand-mill in Pueblo houses.

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**Who acts:** lava · **What happens:** serve · **To what, where:** 33

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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 Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lava), 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:pg77804:10:30
# text = [33] The slab of lava which still serves as a hand-mill in Pueblo houses.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	33	33	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	slab	slab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	serves	serve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Pueblo	Pueblo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | present | lava |  |  |  | still | as a hand mill; in Pueblo houses | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in house=Attribute |

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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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