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title: [9] The Pueblos believed it was an immense plain whereon the racers… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [9] The Pueblos believed it was an immense plain whereon the racers were to race over a square course--to the extreme east, then to the extreme north, and so on, back to the starting-point. Who acts: Pueblos, pueblo, racers. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-s
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 46

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\[9\] The Pueblos believed it was an immense plain whereon the racers were to race over a square course--to the extreme east, then to the extreme north, and so on, back to the starting-point.

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**Who acts:** Pueblos, pueblo, racers · **What happens:** believe, be · **To what, where:** 9, immense plain, square course · **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 Antelope Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pueblos, pueblo, racers), 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:pg77804:3:46
# text = [9] The Pueblos believed it was an immense plain whereon the racers were to race over a square course--to the extreme east, then to the extreme north, and so on, back to the starting-point.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Pueblos	Pueblo	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
12	whereon	whereon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	racers	racer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	extreme	extreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	extreme	extreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	on	on	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	back	back	ADV	RB	_	36	conj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	starting	starting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | past | the Pueblos | 9 |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past | pueblo | a immense plain and the extreme east and the extreme north |  |  |  | the extreme east *conj*; the extreme north *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the racers |  |  | a square course |  | to race; whereon *property* | 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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