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title: There sat the divinities of the East, who are white; and of the Nort… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: There sat the divinities of the East, who are white; and of the North, who are blue; and beyond them were the sacred animals--the mountain lion, the eagle, bear, buffalo, badger, hawk, rabbit, rattlesnake, and all the others that are of the Trues. Who acts: divinities, others. A sentence of «The man
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 64

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There sat the divinities of the East, who are white; and of the North, who are blue; and beyond them were the sacred animals--the mountain lion, the eagle, bear, buffalo, badger, hawk, rabbit, rattlesnake, and all the others that are of the Trues.

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**Who acts:** divinities, others · **What happens:** sit, be · **To what, where:** divinities

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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 (divinities, others), 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:pg77804:23:64
# text = There sat the divinities of the East, who are white; and of the North, who are blue; and beyond them were the sacred animals--the mountain lion, the eagle, bear, buffalo, badger, hawk, rabbit, rattlesnake, and all the others that are of the Trues.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	divinities	divinity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	rattlesnake	rattlesnake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
50	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	52	det:predet	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj	_	_
53	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	57	nsubj	_	_
54	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	Trues	true	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  | the divinities of the East |  | there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location divinity=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the divinities of the East |  |  |  |  | white *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of the North; who *nsubj*; blue *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | divinities *= divinity* |  |  |  |  | beyond the sacred animals; the mountain lion and the eagle and bear and buffalo and badger and hawk and rabbit and rattlesnake *appos* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | all others |  |  |  |  | of the Trues; that *nsubj* | 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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