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title: The Moon, you must know, has always been just as fond of looking at… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Moon, you must know, has always been just as fond of looking at herself in the water as she is to this very day, and forgetting Nah-chu-rú-chu’s warning, she came to the brink, and looked down upon her fair reflection. Who acts: Moon. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 81

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The Moon, you must know, has always been just as fond of looking at herself in the water as she is to this very day, and forgetting Nah-chu-rú-chu’s warning, she came to the brink, and looked down upon her fair reflection.

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**Who acts:** Moon · **What happens:** know, have, be, look, forget, come · **To what, where:** water, chu rú, brink · **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 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 (Moon), 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:pg77804:10:81
# text = The Moon, you must know, has always been just as fond of looking at herself in the water as she is to this very day, and forgetting Nah-chu-rú-chu’s warning, she came to the brink, and looked down upon her fair reflection.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
30	forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	csubj	_	_
31	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	35	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	chu	chu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	rú	rú	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	chu	chu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
39	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	parataxis	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	brink	brink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
49	down	down	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
52	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	reflection	reflection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | must | the Moon |  |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | always, fond *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  | the water |  | at Moon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at herself=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | Moon |  |  |  | to this day |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **forget** | gerund |  | chu rú |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **come** | past | Moon |  |  | the brink |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to brink=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **look down** | past | Moon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon Moon's fair reflection; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon reflection=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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