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title: Isleta lies on the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, upon the western b… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Isleta lies on the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, upon the western bank of the Rio Grande, on a lava promontory which was once an island--whence the town takes its Spanish name. Who acts: Isleta, lava promontory, town. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 30

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Isleta lies on the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, upon the western bank of the Rio Grande, on a lava promontory which was once an island--whence the town takes its Spanish name.

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**Who acts:** Isleta, lava promontory, town · **What happens:** lie, be, take, name · **To what, where:** Atlantic, island, Spanish name

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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 (Isleta, lava promontory, town), 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:pg77804:2:30
# text = Isleta lies on the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, upon the western bank of the Rio Grande, on a lava promontory which was once an island--whence the town takes its Spanish name.
1	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	Railroad	Railroad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Rio	Rio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Grande	Grande	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	promontory	promontory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	27	advmod	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | Isleta |  |  | the Atlantic and Pacific |  | upon the western bank of the Rio Grande; a lava promontory *parataxis* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on atlantic=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a lava promontory | a island |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | present | the town | town's Spanish name |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 4 | **name** |  | town |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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