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title: Three miles north of Isleta, amid the sandy plain of Los Padillas, s… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Three miles north of Isleta, amid the sandy plain of Los Padillas, stands the strange round mesa of Shee-em-tóo-ai. Who acts: sandy plain. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Town of the Snake-girls, with its dependency t
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 3

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Three miles north of Isleta, amid the sandy plain of Los Padillas, stands the strange round mesa of Shee-em-tóo-ai.

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**Who acts:** sandy plain · **What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** Three miles

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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 Town of the Snake-girls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sandy plain), 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:pg77804:22:3
# text = Three miles north of Isleta, amid the sandy plain of Los Padillas, stands the strange round mesa of Shee-em-tóo-ai.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	north	north	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	amid	amid	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Los	Los	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	Padillas	Padillas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	mesa	mesa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
21	Shee	Shee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	em	em	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	tóo	tóo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | the sandy plain of Los | Three miles |  |  |  | the strange round mesa of tóo ai  Shee *obj* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mesa=Stimulus |

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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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