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title: The Pueblos _never_ counted above 30,000 souls. — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Pueblos _never_ counted above 30,000 souls. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 23

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The Pueblos \_never\_ counted above 30,000 souls.

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**Who acts:** Pueblos · **What happens:** not count · **To what, where:** 30,000 souls, 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:pg77804:2:23
# text = The Pueblos _never_ counted above 30,000 souls.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Pueblos	Pueblos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
6	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
7	above	above	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	30,000	30,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **count** | participle | the Pueblos *not said here* | 30,000 souls |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |

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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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