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title: [60] Which the Pueblos believe to be flat and square. — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [60] Which the Pueblos believe to be flat and square. Who acts: Pueblos. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Race of the Tails, 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 Race of the Tails, sentence 32

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\[60\] Which the Pueblos believe to be flat and square.

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**Who acts:** Pueblos · **What happens:** believe, be · **To what, where:** 60 · **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 Race of the Tails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pueblos), 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:pg77804:16:32
# text = [60] Which the Pueblos believe to be flat and square.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Pueblos	Pueblo	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present | the Pueblos |  |  |  |  | Which *obj* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | flat *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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