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title: In Isleta they fear the Americans too much to indulge in witch-killi… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Isleta they fear the Americans too much to indulge in witch-killing, for Albuquerque is only a few miles away. Who acts: woman, Albuquerque. 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 tr
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 127

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In Isleta they fear the Americans too much to indulge in witch-killing, for Albuquerque is only a few miles away.

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**Who acts:** woman, Albuquerque · **What happens:** fear, indulge, be · **To what, where:** Americans, Isleta, witch killing

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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 (woman, Albuquerque), 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:pg77804:23:127
# text = In Isleta they fear the Americans too much to indulge in witch-killing, for Albuquerque is only a few miles away.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fear	fear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Americans	American	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	indulge	indulge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	killing	killing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
17	Albuquerque	Albuquerque	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | present | woman | the Americans  much |  | Isleta |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer american=Stimulus |
| 2 | **indulge** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | witch killing |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | Albuquerque |  |  |  |  | for a few miles; away *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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