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title: The story is very important ethnologically, for it tells much of the… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The story is very important ethnologically, for it tells much of the strange secret religion of the Pueblos, and more concerning the method of initiating a young Indian into one of the orders of medicine-men--both matters which men of science have found extremely difficult to be learned. Who acts: s
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 7

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The story is very important ethnologically, for it tells much of the strange secret religion of the Pueblos, and more concerning the method of initiating a young Indian into one of the orders of medicine-men--both matters which men of science have found extremely difficult to be learned.

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**Who acts:** story, method, both, men · **What happens:** be, tell, concern, initiate, matter, find · **To what, where:** much, method, young Indian, medicine men · **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 (story, method, both, men), 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:pg77804:19:7
# text = The story is very important ethnologically, for it tells much of the strange secret religion of the Pueblos, and more concerning the method of initiating a young Indian into one of the orders of medicine-men--both matters which men of science have found extremely difficult to be learned.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	ethnologically	ethnologically	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Pueblos	Pueblo	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	initiating	initiate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obj	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	42	nsubj	_	_
42	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
43	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	44	det	_	_
44	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
47	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	42	ccomp	_	_
49	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	xcomp	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
52	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the story |  |  |  |  | ethnologically, important *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | story | much of the strange secret religion of the Pueblos |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent much=Recipient |
| 3 | **concern** | gerund | the story *not said here* | the method |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus method=Experiencer |
| 4 | **initiate** | gerund | the method *not said here* | a young Indian |  |  |  | into one of the orders of medicine men | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indian=Patient |
| 5 | **matter** | present | both |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **find** | present · perfect | which men of science |  |  |  |  | difficult *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **learn** | to-infinitive · passive | which men of science *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V» |
| 8 | **order** |  |  | medicine men |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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