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title: [110] A fixed belief among the Pueblos, who will tell none of their… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [110] A fixed belief among the Pueblos, who will tell none of their myths between the Spring Medicine-Making, in March, and the Fall Medicine-Making, in October, lest the rattlesnake punish them for some slip from the truth. Who acts: fixed belief, none, Fall Medicine, rattlesnake. A sentence of «Th
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 17

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\[110\] A fixed belief among the Pueblos, who will tell none of their myths between the Spring Medicine-Making, in March, and the Fall Medicine-Making, in October, lest the rattlesnake punish them for some slip from the truth.

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**Who acts:** fixed belief, none, Fall Medicine, rattlesnake · **What happens:** fix, tell, make, punish · **To what, where:** myths, 110 · **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, Doctor Field-mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fixed belief, none, Fall Medicine, rattlesnake), 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:pg77804:34:17
# text = [110] A fixed belief among the Pueblos, who will tell none of their myths between the Spring Medicine-Making, in March, and the Fall Medicine-Making, in October, lest the rattlesnake punish them for some slip from the truth.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	110	110	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	among	among	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Pueblos	Pueblo	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
14	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	23	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	between	between	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Spring	Spring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	Medicine	Medicine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Fall	Fall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Medicine	Medicine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	rattlesnake	rattlesnake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	45	det	_	_
45	slip	slip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | a fixed belief among the Pueblos |  |  |  | october |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | none of Pueblos's myths between the Spring |  |  |  | march |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | the Fall Medicine |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **punish** | infinitive | the rattlesnake | myths *= myth* |  |  |  | for some slip from the truth | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Patient for slip=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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