---
title: Besides the cities now inhabited, the ruins of about fifteen hundred… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Besides the cities now inhabited, the ruins of about fifteen hundred other pueblos--and some of them the noblest ruins in the country--dot the brown valleys and rocky mesa-tops of New Mexico. Who acts: some, dot. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by C
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/2/20/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The man who married the moon, and othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/) / [The Brown Story-tellers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/2/) / 20

# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 20

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Besides the cities now inhabited, the ruins of about fifteen hundred other pueblos--and some of them the noblest ruins in the country--dot the brown valleys and rocky mesa-tops of New Mexico.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** some, dot · **What happens:** inhabit, ruin, valley · **To what, where:** cities, country, hundred other pueblos

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (some, dot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:2:20
# text = Besides the cities now inhabited, the ruins of about fifteen hundred other pueblos--and some of them the noblest ruins in the country--dot the brown valleys and rocky mesa-tops of New Mexico.
1	Besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	_
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	pueblos	pueblo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	noblest	noble	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	dot	dot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
33	mesa	mesa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inhabit** | participle |  | the cities and the ruins of hundred other pueblos and the noblest ruins and the brown valleys and rocky mesa tops of New Mexico *not said here* |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ruin** |  | some of pueblos |  |  | the country |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **valley** |  | dot |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **ruin** |  |  | hundred other pueblos |  |  |  |  | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/2/19/)
- next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/2/21/)
- ↑ back to [The Brown Story-tellers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/2/)