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title: In the remote pueblos they are as many as six stories in height--bui… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the remote pueblos they are as many as six stories in height--built somewhat in the shape of an enormous terraced pyramid. Who acts: pueblos. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brown Story-tellers, with its dependency
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 12

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In the remote pueblos they are as many as six stories in height--built somewhat in the shape of an enormous terraced pyramid.

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**Who acts:** pueblos · **What happens:** be, build, terrace · **To what, where:** six stories, height, remote pueblos

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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 Brown Story-tellers. 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:pg77804:2:12
# text = In the remote pueblos they are as many as six stories in height--built somewhat in the shape of an enormous terraced pyramid.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	remote	remote	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pueblos	pueblo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	10	advmod	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
10	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	terraced	terrace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	pyramid	pyramid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | pueblos *= pueblo* | six stories |  | height |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | participle |  | height *not said here* |  |  |  | in the shape of a enormous terraced pyramid; somewhat *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in shape=Attribute |
| 3 | **terrace** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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