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title: He guarded them by day and she by night--only there _was_ no night,… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: He guarded them by day and she by night--only there _was_ no night, for then the Moon had two eyes, and saw as clearly as the Sun, and with glance as bright. Who acts: He, Moon. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Mother 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 8

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He guarded them by day and she by night--only there \_was\_ no night, for then the Moon had two eyes, and saw as clearly as the Sun, and with glance as bright.

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**Who acts:** He, Moon · **What happens:** guard, have, see · **To what, where:** children, two 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 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 (He, 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:pg77804:11:8
# text = He guarded them by day and she by night--only there _was_ no night, for then the Moon had two eyes, and saw as clearly as the Sun, and with glance as bright.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	guarded	guard	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	parataxis	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | past | He | children *= child* |  |  | day; night | with glance as bright; wife *conj* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **have** | past | the Moon | two eyes |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | past | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the Sun; clearly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as sun=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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