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title: The village was finally abandoned by the Indians in 1840; and their… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The village was finally abandoned by the Indians in 1840; and their neat houses of adobe bricks and stone, and their quaint adobe church, have sadly fallen to decay. Who acts: Indians. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 2

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The village was finally abandoned by the Indians in 1840; and their neat houses of adobe bricks and stone, and their quaint adobe church, have sadly fallen to decay.

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**Who acts:** Indians · **What happens:** abandon, fall, decay · **To what, where:** village, 1840

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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 (Indians), 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:pg77804:23:2
# text = The village was finally abandoned by the Indians in 1840; and their neat houses of adobe bricks and stone, and their quaint adobe church, have sadly fallen to decay.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	abandoned	abandon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1840	1840	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	adobe	adobe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
24	quaint	quaint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	adobe	adobe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	decay	decay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abandon** | past · passive | the Indians | the village |  | 1840 |  | Indians's neat houses of adobe bricks and stone and bricks's quaint adobe church *obl*; finally *property* | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme subject=Source |
| 2 | **fall** | present · perfect | the Indians *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sadly *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **decay** | to-infinitive | the Indians *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient 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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