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title: The women own the houses and their contents, and do not work outside… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The women own the houses and their contents, and do not work outside; and the men control the fields and crops. Who acts: women, men. 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 t
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 27

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The women own the houses and their contents, and do not work outside; and the men control the fields and crops.

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**Who acts:** women, men · **What happens:** own, not work, control · **To what, where:** houses, fields

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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 (women, men), 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:pg77804:2:27
# text = The women own the houses and their contents, and do not work outside; and the men control the fields and crops.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	own	own	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	control	control	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | present | the women | the houses and women's contents |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot house=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **work** | infinitive · do-support | the women *not said here* |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **control** | infinitive | the men | the fields and crops |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=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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