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title: [76] But it came that nearly all of them had the evil road, and in t… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [76] But it came that nearly all of them had the evil road, and in the whole town were but five True Believers (in the Indian religion). Who acts: informant, all. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Drowning of Pecos, wit
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 7

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\[76\] But it came that nearly all of them had the evil road, and in the whole town were but five True Believers (in the Indian religion).

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**Who acts:** informant, all · **What happens:** come, have, be · **To what, where:** 76, evil road, five True Believers, whole town

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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 (informant, all), 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:pg77804:23:7
# text = [76] But it came that nearly all of them had the evil road, and in the whole town were but five True Believers (in the Indian religion).
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	76	76	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Believers	Believer	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | informant | 76 |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | all of people | the evil road |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | five True Believers |  | the whole town |  | the Indian religion *appos* | 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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