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description: In the first place, it is to the west of the town, which is “bad medicine” in itself to any Indian, for that point of the compass belongs to the dead and to bad spirits. Who acts: _, town, point. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher L
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 17

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In the first place, it is to the west of the town, which is “bad medicine” in itself to any Indian, for that point of the compass belongs to the dead and to bad spirits.

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**Who acts:** \_, town, point · **What happens:** be, belong, point · **To what, where:** first place, bad medicine, compass

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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 Hungry Grandfathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_, town, point), 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:pg77804:32:17
# text = In the first place, it is to the west of the town, which is “bad medicine” in itself to any Indian, for that point of the compass belongs to the dead and to bad spirits.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	19	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	compass	compass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | \_ |  |  | the first place |  | to the west; of the town | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the town | bad medicine |  |  |  | in \_ | tree rules |
| 3 | **belong** | present | that point of the compass |  |  |  |  | to any Indian; to the dead and bad spirits | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **point** |  |  | the compass |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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