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title: So mother-pale above us She bends, her watch to keep, Who of her sig… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: So mother-pale above us She bends, her watch to keep, Who of her sight dear-bought the night To give her children sleep. Who acts: mother, watch. 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 a
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 34

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So mother-pale above us She bends, her watch to keep, Who of her sight dear-bought the night To give her children sleep.

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**Who acts:** mother, watch · **What happens:** bend, keep, buy, give, sleep, sight · **To what, where:** watch, sight, children

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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 (mother, watch), 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:pg77804:11:34
# text = So mother-pale above us She bends, her watch to keep, Who of her sight dear-bought the night To give her children sleep.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
5	above	above	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	bends	bend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
15	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	To	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	iobj	_	_
28	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | present | mother | mother's watch |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent watch=Material |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | mother's watch *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **buy** | participle |  | mother's sight *not said here* |  |  | night |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive |  |  | mother's children |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 5 | **sleep** | present | mother's watch |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sight** |  | mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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