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title: There is even a story from the far-off towns of Moqui, three hundred… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: There is even a story from the far-off towns of Moqui, three hundred miles west of here and ninety miles from the railroad. Who acts: story. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, with its depend
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui\[72\] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 3

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There is even a story from the far-off towns of Moqui, three hundred miles west of here and ninety miles from the railroad.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** be

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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 Moqui\[72\] Boy and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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:pg77804:20:3
# text = There is even a story from the far-off towns of Moqui, three hundred miles west of here and ninety miles from the railroad.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
11	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Moqui	Moqui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	compound	_	_
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
18	west	west	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	ninety	ninety	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	railroad	railroad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a story from the far towns of Moqui and hundred miles and ninety miles from the railroad |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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