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title: The implacable savages by whom they were hemmed in made necessary th… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The implacable savages by whom they were hemmed in made necessary the abandonment of hundreds of pueblos; and this great number of ruins does not indicate a vast ancient population. Who acts: great number. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 22

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The implacable savages by whom they were hemmed in made necessary the abandonment of hundreds of pueblos; and this great number of ruins does not indicate a vast ancient population.

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**Who acts:** great number · **What happens:** hem, make, not indicate, abandon · **To what, where:** ruins, made necessary abandonment, vast ancient population, implacable savages, hundreds

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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 (great number), 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:pg77804:2:22
# text = The implacable savages by whom they were hemmed in made necessary the abandonment of hundreds of pueblos; and this great number of ruins does not indicate a vast ancient population.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	implacable	implacable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	savages	savage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	hemmed	hem	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
11	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	abandonment	abandonment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	pueblos	pueblo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	indicate	indicate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hem** | past · passive |  | ruins *= ruin* |  | the made necessary abandonment of hundreds of pueblos |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **not** **indicate** | present · do-support | this great number of ruins | a vast ancient population |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot population=Topic |
| 5 | **abandon** |  |  | hundreds of pueblos |  |  |  |  | nom abandonment «act 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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