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title: The history of the abandonment of Pecos is by no means startling; bu… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The history of the abandonment of Pecos is by no means startling; but the Indian tradition--for they have already added this to their countless myths--is decidedly so. Who acts: history. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Th
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 3

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The history of the abandonment of Pecos is by no means startling; but the Indian tradition--for they have already added this to their countless myths--is decidedly so.

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**Who acts:** history · **What happens:** be, add, abandon · **To what, where:** bricks, Pecos

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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 (history), 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:pg77804:23:3
# text = The history of the abandonment of Pecos is by no means startling; but the Indian tradition--for they have already added this to their countless myths--is decidedly so.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	abandonment	abandonment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Pecos	Pecos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	obl	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	startling	startling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	already	already	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	countless	countless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	decidedly	decidedly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the history of the abandonment of Pecos |  |  |  |  | by no; startling *obj*; the Indian tradition *parataxis*; mean *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive |  | bricks *= brick* |  |  |  | to bricks's countless myths; this *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | decidedly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **abandon** |  |  | Pecos |  |  |  |  | nom abandonment «act transitive»: of=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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