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title: The distrust and discontent grew rapidly--for to this day nothing on… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The distrust and discontent grew rapidly--for to this day nothing on earth will disrupt any Indian community so quickly or so surely as the belief that some of the people are witches. Who acts: distrust, some. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Char
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 76

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The distrust and discontent grew rapidly--for to this day nothing on earth will disrupt any Indian community so quickly or so surely as the belief that some of the people are witches.

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**Who acts:** distrust, some · **What happens:** grow, disrupt, be · **To what, where:** Indian community, earth, witches

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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 (distrust, some), 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:pg77804:22:76
# text = The distrust and discontent grew rapidly--for to this day nothing on earth will disrupt any Indian community so quickly or so surely as the belief that some of the people are witches.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	distrust	distrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	discontent	discontent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	disrupt	disrupt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	21	conj	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the distrust and discontent |  |  |  |  | nothing  this *conj*; rapidly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **disrupt** | future |  | any Indian community |  | earth |  | quickly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | some of the people | witches |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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