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title: It is nearly surrounded by fertile vineyards, orchards of peaches, a… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is nearly surrounded by fertile vineyards, orchards of peaches, apricots, apples, cherries, plums, pears, and quinces, and fields of corn, wheat, beans, and peppers, all owned by my dusky neighbors. Who acts: fertile vineyards, dusky neighbors. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and oth
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 33

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It is nearly surrounded by fertile vineyards, orchards of peaches, apricots, apples, cherries, plums, pears, and quinces, and fields of corn, wheat, beans, and peppers, all owned by my dusky neighbors.

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**Who acts:** fertile vineyards, dusky neighbors · **What happens:** surround, own · **To what, where:** population, all

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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 (fertile vineyards, dusky neighbors), 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:pg77804:2:33
# text = It is nearly surrounded by fertile vineyards, orchards of peaches, apricots, apples, cherries, plums, pears, and quinces, and fields of corn, wheat, beans, and peppers, all owned by my dusky neighbors.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	fertile	fertile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	vineyards	vineyard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	orchards	orchard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	peaches	peach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	apricots	apricot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	cherries	cherry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	plums	plum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	pears	pear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	quinces	quince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	peppers	pepper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	owned	own	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	dusky	dusky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** | present · passive | fertile vineyards and orchards of peaches and apricots and apples and cherries and plums and pears | population |  |  |  | quinces *obl*; fields of corn and wheat and beans *obl*; peppers *obl:agent*; nearly *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **own** | participle · passive | my dusky neighbors | all |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=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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