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description: They are near the noblest ruins in our North America--the wondrous piles of massive masonry of Abó, Cuaray, and the so-called “Gran Quivira”--the latter the home of the silliest delusion that ever lured treasure-hunters to their death. Who acts: scores, silliest delusion. A sentence of «The man who 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 3

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They are near the noblest ruins in our North America--the wondrous piles of massive masonry of Abó, Cuaray, and the so-called “Gran Quivira”--the latter the home of the silliest delusion that ever lured treasure-hunters to their death.

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**Who acts:** scores, silliest delusion · **What happens:** be, call, lure, die · **To what, where:** noblest ruins, treasure hunters · **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 Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scores, silliest delusion), 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:pg77804:19:3
# text = They are near the noblest ruins in our North America--the wondrous piles of massive masonry of Abó, Cuaray, and the so-called “Gran Quivira”--the latter the home of the silliest delusion that ever lured treasure-hunters to their death.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	noblest	noble	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	piles	pile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	masonry	masonry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Abó	Abó	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Cuaray	Cuaray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Quivira	Quivira	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	silliest	silly	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	40	amod	_	_
40	delusion	delusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
42	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	43	advmod	_	_
43	lured	lure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl:relcl	_	_
44	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | scores *= score* |  |  | the noblest ruins and the wondrous piles of massive masonry of Abó and Cuaray |  | in our North America; the wondrous piles of massive masonry of Abó and Cuaray *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | the noblest ruins and the wondrous piles of massive masonry of Abó and Cuaray *not said here* |  |  |  | Gran Quivira *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lure** | participle | the silliest delusion | treasure hunters |  |  | ever | to scores's death *result* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent hunter=Patient to death=Result |
| 4 | **die** |  | scores *= score* |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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