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title: When the mesa town was inhabited, so was Isleta; and, being but thre… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the mesa town was inhabited, so was Isleta; and, being but three miles apart, the intercommunication was constant. Who acts: intercommunication. 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 d
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 9

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When the mesa town was inhabited, so was Isleta; and, being but three miles apart, the intercommunication was constant.

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**Who acts:** intercommunication · **What happens:** inhabit, be · **To what, where:** mesa town, Isleta

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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 (intercommunication), 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:pg77804:22:9
# text = When the mesa town was inhabited, so was Isleta; and, being but three miles apart, the intercommunication was constant.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	mesa	mesa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	intercommunication	intercommunication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inhabit** | past · passive |  | the mesa town |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | Isleta |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | the intercommunication |  |  |  |  | apart, constant *property* | 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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