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title: But where the five True Believers stood, holding the cane, the floor… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But where the five True Believers stood, holding the cane, the floor was dusty. Who acts: five True Believers, floor. 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 and the pragmatics of e
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 106

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But where the five True Believers stood, holding the cane, the floor was dusty.

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**Who acts:** five True Believers, floor · **What happens:** stand, hold, be · **To what, where:** cane

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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 (five True Believers, floor), 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:pg77804:23:106
# text = But where the five True Believers stood, holding the cane, the floor was dusty.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Believers	Believer	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the five True Believers |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | the five True Believers *not said here* | the cane |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cane=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the floor |  |  |  |  | dusty *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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