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title: The Pueblo Indians have for nearly two centuries given no trouble to… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Pueblo Indians have for nearly two centuries given no trouble to the European sharers of their domain; but their wars of defense against the savage tribes who surrounded them completely--with the Apaches, Navajos, Comanches, and Utes--lasted until a very few years ago. Who acts: Pueblo Indians, 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 24

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The Pueblo Indians have for nearly two centuries given no trouble to the European sharers of their domain; but their wars of defense against the savage tribes who surrounded them completely--with the Apaches, Navajos, Comanches, and Utes--lasted until a very few years ago.

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**Who acts:** Pueblo Indians, two centuries, wars, defense · **What happens:** have, give, surround, last, war · **To what, where:** trouble, European sharers, savage tribes

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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 (Pueblo Indians, two centuries, wars, defense), 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:pg77804:2:24
# text = The Pueblo Indians have for nearly two centuries given no trouble to the European sharers of their domain; but their wars of defense against the savage tribes who surrounded them completely--with the Apaches, Navajos, Comanches, and Utes--lasted until a very few years ago.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Pueblo	Pueblo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sharers	sharer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	domain	domain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	defense	defense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	against	against	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Apaches	apache	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	Navajos	Navajos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	Comanches	comanche	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	Utes	ute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
46	until	until	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	very	very	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
51	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the Pueblo Indians |  |  |  | century |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | participle | two centuries *not said here* | no trouble | the European sharers of Indians's domain |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme to sharer=Recipient |
| 3 | **surround** | participle · passive |  | the savage tribes |  |  |  | wars *= war* *obj*; completely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **last** | past | Indians's wars of defense against the savage tribes  Navajos and the Apaches and Comanches and Utes |  |  |  | year |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **war** |  | defense |  |  |  |  | against the savage tribes | nom war «act intransitive»: of=agent against=obl |

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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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