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title: The case was kept out of the American courts only by the payment of… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The case was kept out of the American courts only by the payment of a large sum to his parents by his accusers. Who acts: accusers. 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 p
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 129

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The case was kept out of the American courts only by the payment of a large sum to his parents by his accusers.

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**Who acts:** accusers · **What happens:** keep out, pay · **To what, where:** case, American courts, large sum

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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 (accusers), 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:pg77804:23:129
# text = The case was kept out of the American courts only by the payment of a large sum to his parents by his accusers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	payment	payment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	accusers	accuser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	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 | **keep out** | past · passive |  | the case |  | the American courts |  | the payment of a large sum to Isletan's parents by Isletan's accusers *parataxis* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme court=Attribute |
| 2 | **pay** |  | Isletan's accusers | a large sum to Isletan's parents |  |  |  |  | nom payment «possession transitive»: of=patient by=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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