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title: It is a story common to all the Quères, and is undoubtedly ancient;… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a story common to all the Quères, and is undoubtedly ancient; but as I heard it first in Isleta its scene is laid in Laguna, a pueblo only two hundred years old. Who acts: adventure, I. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummi
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 3

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It is a story common to all the Quères, and is undoubtedly ancient; but as I heard it first in Isleta its scene is laid in Laguna, a pueblo only two hundred years old.

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**Who acts:** adventure, I · **What happens:** be, hear, lay · **To what, where:** adventure, Isleta, scene, Laguna · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 Quères Diana. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adventure, I), 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:pg77804:29:3
# text = It is a story common to all the Quères, and is undoubtedly ancient; but as I heard it first in Isleta its scene is laid in Laguna, a pueblo only two hundred years old.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Quères	Quères	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	undoubtedly	undoubtedly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	ccomp	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Laguna	Laguna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	pueblo	pueblo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
33	only	only	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	compound	_	_
35	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl:unmarked	_	_
37	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | adventure |  |  |  |  | to all Quères; a story *nsubj*; common *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | adventure *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ancient, undoubtedly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | past | I | adventure |  | Isleta |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lay** | present · passive |  | adventure's scene |  | Laguna |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in laguna=Destination |

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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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