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title: [82] In imitation of one of the most popular and exciting sports of… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [82] In imitation of one of the most popular and exciting sports of the Southwestern Indians and Mexicans. Who acts: Southwestern Indians. 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, with its dependen
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 42

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\[82\] In imitation of one of the most popular and exciting sports of the Southwestern Indians and Mexicans.

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**Who acts:** Southwestern Indians · **What happens:** sport · **To what, where:** 82

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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 (Southwestern 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:pg77804:24:42
# text = [82] In imitation of one of the most popular and exciting sports of the Southwestern Indians and Mexicans.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	82	82	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	imitation	imitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	exciting	exciting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Southwestern	Southwestern	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Mexicans	Mexican	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **sport** |  | the Southwestern Indians and Mexicans |  |  |  |  |  | nom sport «act intransitive»: of=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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