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title: A VERY ancient and characteristic story about the origin of Isleta i… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: A VERY ancient and characteristic story about the origin of Isleta is based on the historic fact that part of its founders came from east of the Manzano Mountains, from one of the prehistoric pueblos whose ruins are now barely visible in those broad plains. Who acts: part, prehistoric pueblos. A sen
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 1

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A VERY ancient and characteristic story about the origin of Isleta is based on the historic fact that part of its founders came from east of the Manzano Mountains, from one of the prehistoric pueblos whose ruins are now barely visible in those broad plains.

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**Who acts:** part, prehistoric pueblos · **What happens:** base, come, be, ruin · **To what, where:** ancient story, historic fact, east, broad plains

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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 Ants That Pushed on the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (part, prehistoric pueblos), 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:pg77804:24:1
# text = A VERY ancient and characteristic story about the origin of Isleta is based on the historic fact that part of its founders came from east of the Manzano Mountains, from one of the prehistoric pueblos whose ruins are now barely visible in those broad plains.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	VERY	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	characteristic	characteristic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	historic	historic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	founders	founder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Manzano	Manzano	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	prehistoric	prehistoric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	pueblos	pueblo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
37	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
39	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
40	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
41	barely	barely	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	46	det	_	_
45	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **base** | present · passive |  | a ancient story about the origin of Isleta |  | the historic fact |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on fact=Source |
| 2 | **come** | past | part of part's founders | the historic fact *not said here* |  | east of the Manzano Mountains |  | from one of the prehistoric pueblos and the prehistoric pueblos and ruins's ruins | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | part of part's founders *not said here* |  |  | that broad plains | now | barely, visible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **ruin** |  | the prehistoric pueblos and the prehistoric pueblos and ruins's ruins |  |  |  |  |  | nom ruin «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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