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title: TWENTY-FIVE miles southeast of Santa Fé, New Mexico, lie the deserte… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: TWENTY-FIVE miles southeast of Santa Fé, New Mexico, lie the deserted ruins of the ancient Pueblo town of Pecos. Who acts: miles southeast. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Drowning of Pecos, with its dependency tree a
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 1

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TWENTY-FIVE miles southeast of Santa Fé, New Mexico, lie the deserted ruins of the ancient Pueblo town of Pecos.

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**Who acts:** miles southeast · **What happens:** lie, desert, ruin · **To what, where:** deserted ruins, ancient Pueblo town

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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 Drowning of Pecos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miles southeast), 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:pg77804:23:1
# text = TWENTY-FIVE miles southeast of Santa Fé, New Mexico, lie the deserted ruins of the ancient Pueblo town of Pecos.
1	TWENTY	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	FIVE	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	southeast	southeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Santa	Santa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	Fé	Fé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	deserted	desert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Pueblo	Pueblo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Pecos	Pecos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | miles southeast of Santa | the deserted ruins of the ancient Pueblo town of Pecos |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **desert** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ruin** |  |  | the ancient Pueblo town of Pecos |  |  |  |  | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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