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title: The name was perhaps suggested by the knife-like shape of the lava r… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The name was perhaps suggested by the knife-like shape of the lava ridge on which the pueblo is built. Who acts: like shape. 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 the pragma
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 37

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The name was perhaps suggested by the knife-like shape of the lava ridge on which the pueblo is built.

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**Who acts:** like shape · **What happens:** suggest, build · **To what, where:** name, pueblo, lava ridge

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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 (like shape), 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:pg77804:2:37
# text = The name was perhaps suggested by the knife-like shape of the lava ridge on which the pueblo is built.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	ridge	ridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pueblo	pueblo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | past · passive | the like shape of the lava ridge | the name |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 2 | **build** | present · passive |  | the pueblo |  | the lava ridge |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on which=Source |

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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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