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title: He is the father, the provider--and how shall he watch against harm,… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: He is the father, the provider--and how shall he watch against harm, or how find us game without his bright eyes? Who acts: eye. 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 pragmatics
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 26

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He is the father, the provider--and how shall he watch against harm, or how find us game without his bright eyes?

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**Who acts:** eye · **What happens:** be, watch, find · **To what, where:** father, harm, us

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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 (eye), 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:pg77804:11:26
# text = He is the father, the provider--and how shall he watch against harm, or how find us game without his bright eyes?
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	provider	provider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
14	against	against	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	without	without	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | eye | the father and the provider |  |  |  | the provider *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** | shall | eye |  |  | harm |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against harm=Location |
| 3 | **find** | infinitive | eye *not said here* | us |  |  |  | without eye's bright eyes; game *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent we=Theme game=Attribute |

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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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