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description: The Moquis live in northeast Arizona, in strange adobe towns,[73] perched upon impregnable islands of rock, rising far above the bare, brown plain. Who acts: Moquis. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Moqui[72] Boy and t
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui\[72\] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 4

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The Moquis live in northeast Arizona, in strange adobe towns,\[73\] perched upon impregnable islands of rock, rising far above the bare, brown plain.

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**Who acts:** Moquis · **What happens:** live, perch, rise · **To what, where:** northeast Arizona, strange adobe towns, impregnable islands

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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 (Moquis), 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:pg77804:20:4
# text = The Moquis live in northeast Arizona, in strange adobe towns,[73] perched upon impregnable islands of rock, rising far above the bare, brown plain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Moquis	Moquis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	northeast	northeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Arizona	Arizona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	adobe	adobe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	73	73	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	perched	perch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	impregnable	impregnable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
24	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
25	above	above	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | the Moquis |  |  | northeast Arizona |  | strange adobe towns *parataxis* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arizona=Location |
| 2 | **perch** | participle |  | strange adobe towns *not said here* |  | impregnable islands of rock |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon island=Location |
| 3 | **rise** | gerund | the Moquis *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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