--- title: Upon its top are still visible the crumbling ruins of the pueblo of… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: Upon its top are still visible the crumbling ruins of the pueblo of Poo-reh-tú-ai--a town deserted, as we are historically sure, over three hundred and fifty years ago. Who acts: we. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:22:6 # text = Upon its top are still visible the crumbling ruins of the pueblo of Poo-reh-tú-ai--a town deserted, as we are historically sure, over three hundred and fifty years ago. 1 Upon upon ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 still still ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 visible visible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 crumbling crumble VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 amod _ _ 9 ruins ruin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 parataxis _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 pueblo pueblo NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 14 Poo Poo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 reh reh NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 tú tú NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ai ai NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 -- -- PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 24 deserted desert VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 as as SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 27 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 historically historically ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 over over ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 compound _ _ 34 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 conj _ _ 37 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl:unmarked _ _ 38 ago ago ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | still | upon plain's top; the crumbling ruins of the pueblo of reh tú ai Poo and a town *parataxis*; visible *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **crumble** | gerund | | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **desert** | participle | | the crumbling ruins of the pueblo of reh tú ai Poo and a town *not said here* | | | | | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | we | | | | | ago, historically, sure *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **ruin** | | | the pueblo of reh tú ai Poo | | | | | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/7/) - ↑ back to [The Town of the Snake-girls](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/)