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title: [23] This figure is always used by the Pueblos in speaking of snow i… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [23] This figure is always used by the Pueblos in speaking of snow in connection with sacred things. Who acts: Pueblos. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of the Rattlesnakes, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 67

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\[23\] This figure is always used by the Pueblos in speaking of snow in connection with sacred things.

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**Who acts:** Pueblos · **What happens:** use, speak · **To what, where:** 23, connection · **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 First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pueblos), 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:pg77804:8:68
# text = [23] This figure is always used by the Pueblos in speaking of snow in connection with sacred things.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Pueblos	Pueblo	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obl:agent	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · passive | the Pueblos | 23 |  |  |  | this figure *nsubj:pass*; always *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | the Pueblos *not said here* |  |  | connection |  | of snow; with sacred things | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with thing=Co-Agent |

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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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