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title: The story is related by two aged Pecos Indians who still live in the… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The story is related by two aged Pecos Indians who still live in the pueblo of Jemez. Who acts: two aged Pecos Indians. 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 pragmatics of
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 4

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The story is related by two aged Pecos Indians who still live in the pueblo of Jemez.

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**Who acts:** two aged Pecos Indians · **What happens:** relate, live · **To what, where:** story, pueblo

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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 (two aged Pecos 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:pg77804:23:4
# text = The story is related by two aged Pecos Indians who still live in the pueblo of Jemez.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	related	relate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Pecos	Pecos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pueblo	pueblo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Jemez	Jemez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | present · passive | two aged Pecos Indians | the story |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | present |  |  |  | the pueblo of Jemez | still | who *nsubj* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pueblo=Location |

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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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