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title: Their secret inner religion[3] is one of the most complicated system… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Their secret inner religion[3] is one of the most complicated systems on earth. Who acts: secret inner religion. 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 pragmatics of ever
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 47

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Their secret inner religion\[3\] is one of the most complicated systems on earth.

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**Who acts:** secret inner religion · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** one

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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 (secret inner religion), 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:pg77804:2:47
# text = Their secret inner religion[3] is one of the most complicated systems on earth.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	13	advmod	_	_
13	complicated	complicated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	systems	system	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | seamstresses's secret inner religion | one |  |  |  | of the complicated systems on earth | tree rules |

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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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