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title: One little pueblo called Sandia is dying out--as many others have do… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: One little pueblo called Sandia is dying out--as many others have done before it--because the medicine-men are quietly killing those whom they suspect of being witches. Who acts: One little pueblo, many others, medicine men, men. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian f
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 125

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One little pueblo called Sandia is dying out--as many others have done before it--because the medicine-men are quietly killing those whom they suspect of being witches.

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**Who acts:** One little pueblo, many others, medicine men, men · **What happens:** call, die out, do, kill, suspect, be · **To what, where:** One little pueblo, those · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (One little pueblo, many others, medicine men, men), 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:pg77804:23:125
# text = One little pueblo called Sandia is dying out--as many others have done before it--because the medicine-men are quietly killing those whom they suspect of being witches.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pueblo	pueblo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	Sandia	Sandia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
26	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	obj	_	_
27	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	suspect	suspect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	cop	_	_
32	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle |  | One little pueblo *not said here* |  |  |  | Sandia *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **die out** | present · progressive | One little pueblo |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **do** | present · perfect | many others |  |  |  | before pueblo |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **kill** | present · progressive | the medicine men | those |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 5 | **suspect** | present | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | whom *obj* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent whom=Attribute |
| 6 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of witches | 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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