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title: As a matter of fact, the Hyó-qua-hoon, or people of Pecos, had dwind… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: As a matter of fact, the Hyó-qua-hoon, or people of Pecos, had dwindled away by war, epidemics, and the like, until only five were left; and in 1840 these lonely survivors moved to other pueblos, and abandoned their ruined town forever. Who acts: lonely survivors, fact. A sentence of «The man who ma
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 122

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As a matter of fact, the Hyó-qua-hoon, or people of Pecos, had dwindled away by war, epidemics, and the like, until only five were left; and in 1840 these lonely survivors moved to other pueblos, and abandoned their ruined town forever.

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**Who acts:** lonely survivors, fact · **What happens:** dwindle away, leave, move, abandon, ruin, matter · **To what, where:** five, 1840, ruined 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 (lonely survivors, fact), 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:pg77804:23:122
# text = As a matter of fact, the Hyó-qua-hoon, or people of Pecos, had dwindled away by war, epidemics, and the like, until only five were left; and in 1840 these lonely survivors moved to other pueblos, and abandoned their ruined town forever.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	Hyó	Hyó	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	qua	qua	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	hoon	hoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Pecos	Pecos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	dwindled	dwindle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	epidemics	epidemic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	1840	1840	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	43	obl	_	_
40	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
41	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	survivors	survivor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
43	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	pueblos	pueblo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	abandoned	abandon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
50	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
51	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	amod	_	_
52	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
53	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwindle away** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | as a matter of fact and the Hyó qua hoon; by war and epidemics; away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **leave** | past · passive |  | five |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **move** | past | this lonely survivors |  |  | 1840 |  | to other pueblos | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in 1840=Source to pueblo=Trajectory |
| 4 | **abandon** | past | this lonely survivors *not said here* | survivors's ruined town |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme town=Source |
| 5 | **ruin** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **matter** |  | fact |  |  |  |  |  | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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