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title: For him the shyest dimples played, for him the whitest teeth flashed… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: For him the shyest dimples played, for him the whitest teeth flashed out, as the owners passed him in the plaza; but he had no eyes for them. Who acts: shyest dimples, owners, Moqui. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Ma
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 15

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For him the shyest dimples played, for him the whitest teeth flashed out, as the owners passed him in the plaza; but he had no eyes for them.

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**Who acts:** shyest dimples, owners, Moqui · **What happens:** play, flash out, pass, have · **To what, where:** whitest teeth, Moqui, plaza, eyes

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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 (shyest dimples, owners, Moqui), 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:pg77804:10:15
# text = For him the shyest dimples played, for him the whitest teeth flashed out, as the owners passed him in the plaza; but he had no eyes for them.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	shyest	shy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	dimples	dimple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	whitest	white	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
13	flashed	flash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	owners	owner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	plaza	plaza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | the shyest dimples | the whitest teeth |  |  |  | for Moqui; for Moqui | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme for he=Eventuality |
| 2 | **flash out** | participle |  | the whitest teeth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | past | the owners | Moqui |  | the plaza |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in plaza=Destination |
| 4 | **have** | past | Moqui | no eyes |  |  |  | for owners *= owner* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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