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title: Their nearest relatives and dearest friends had perished with the ot… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Their nearest relatives and dearest friends had perished with the other witch-people. Who acts: nearest relatives. 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 ever
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 117

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Their nearest relatives and dearest friends had perished with the other witch-people.

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**Who acts:** nearest relatives · **What happens:** perish

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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 (nearest relatives), 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:pg77804:23:117
# text = Their nearest relatives and dearest friends had perished with the other witch-people.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	dearest	dear	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	perished	perish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perish** | past · perfect | Believers's nearest relatives and dearest friends |  |  |  |  | the other witch people *obl:agent* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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