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title: [97] It is one of the fundamental customs of the Pueblos that the ho… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [97] It is one of the fundamental customs of the Pueblos that the house and its general contents belong to the wife; the fields and other outside property to the husband. Who acts: tée, house. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lumm
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 76

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\[97\] It is one of the fundamental customs of the Pueblos that the house and its general contents belong to the wife; the fields and other outside property to the husband.

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**Who acts:** tée, house · **What happens:** be, belong · **To what, where:** one

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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 Sobbing Pine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tée, house), 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:pg77804:28:76
# text = [97] It is one of the fundamental customs of the Pueblos that the house and its general contents belong to the wife; the fields and other outside property to the husband.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	97	97	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fundamental	fundamental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Pueblos	Pueblo	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	16	conj	_	_
21	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | tée | one |  |  |  | of the fundamental customs of the Pueblos; 97 *discourse*; the fields *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **belong** | present | the house and tée's general contents |  |  |  |  | to the wife | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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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