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title: They are not indolent, but industrious--tilling their farms, tending… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: They are not indolent, but industrious--tilling their farms, tending their stock, and keeping all their affairs in order. Who acts: wars. 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 a
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 26

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They are not indolent, but industrious--tilling their farms, tending their stock, and keeping all their affairs in order.

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**Who acts:** wars · **What happens:** not be, be, till, tend, keep, stock · **To what, where:** farms, stock, affairs, order

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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 (wars), 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:pg77804:2:26
# text = They are not indolent, but industrious--tilling their farms, tending their stock, and keeping all their affairs in order.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	indolent	indolent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	industrious	industrious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	tilling	till	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	tending	tend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | wars *= war* |  |  |  |  | indolent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | wars *= war* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **till** | gerund | wars *= war* *not said here* | wars's farms |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tend** | gerund | wars *= war* *not said here* | wars's stock |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stock=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** | gerund | wars *= war* *not said here* | wars's affairs |  | order |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent affair=Theme in order=Location |
| 6 | **stock** |  | wars *= war* |  |  |  |  |  | nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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