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description: It is a circular “island” of hard, black lava, cut off from the long lava cliffs which wall the valley of the Rio Grande on the west. Who acts: 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 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 4

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It is a circular “island” of hard, black lava, cut off from the long lava cliffs which wall the valley of the Rio Grande on the west.

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**Who acts:** plain · **What happens:** be, cut off · **To what, where:** circular island, long lava cliffs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg77804:22:4
# text = It is a circular “island” of hard, black lava, cut off from the long lava cliffs which wall the valley of the Rio Grande on the west.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	circular	circular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
21	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	22	det	_	_
22	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Rio	Rio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Grande	Grande	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | plain | a circular island |  |  |  | of hard black lava | tree rules |
| 2 | **cut off** | infinitive |  |  |  | the long lava cliffs  which wall  the valley of the Rio Grande |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent from cliff=Initial\_Location |

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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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