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title: Higher and higher he rose, in great upward circles, while his keen e… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Higher and higher he rose, in great upward circles, while his keen eyes noted every stick, and stone, and animal on the face of all the world. Who acts: Eagle, keen eyes. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Marrie
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 104

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Higher and higher he rose, in great upward circles, while his keen eyes noted every stick, and stone, and animal on the face of all the world.

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**Who acts:** Eagle, keen eyes · **What happens:** rise, note · **To what, where:** great upward circles, stick

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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 Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eagle, keen eyes), 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:pg77804:10:105
# text = Higher and higher he rose, in great upward circles, while his keen eyes noted every stick, and stone, and animal on the face of all the world.
1	Higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	conj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	upward	upward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	circles	circle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	keen	keen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	noted	note	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | Eagle |  |  | great upward circles |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in circle=Location |
| 2 | **note** | past | Eagle's keen eyes | every stick and stone |  |  |  | animal on the face of all world *obl* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stick=Topic |

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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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