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title: For the endless light grew heavy to the world’s young eyes that knew… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the endless light grew heavy to the world’s young eyes that knew no tender lids of night. Who acts: endless light, young eyes. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Mother Moon, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 16

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For the endless light grew heavy to the world’s young eyes that knew no tender lids of night.

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**Who acts:** endless light, young eyes · **What happens:** grow, know · **To what, where:** tender lids

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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 Mother Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (endless light, young 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:pg77804:11:16
# text = For the endless light grew heavy to the world’s young eyes that knew no tender lids of night.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
16	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lids	lid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the endless light |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | past | the world's young eyes | no tender lids of night |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer lid=Stimulus |

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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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