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title: There are no heedless eyes or ears in the audience, of which I am th… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: There are no heedless eyes or ears in the audience, of which I am the only white member--and a very lucky one, in that I, an “Americano,” am allowed to hear these jealously guarded stories, and to see the silent smoke-prayer which would never be made if a stranger were present. Who acts: heedless ey
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 16

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There are no heedless eyes or ears in the audience, of which I am the only white member--and a very lucky one, in that I, an “Americano,” am allowed to hear these jealously guarded stories, and to see the silent smoke-prayer which would never be made if a stranger were present.

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**Who acts:** heedless eyes, I, only white member, stranger · **What happens:** be, allow, hear, guard, see, not make · **To what, where:** audience, only white member, guarded stories, silent smoke prayer

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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 Magic Hide-and-seek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heedless eyes, I, only white member, stranger), 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:pg77804:15:16
# text = There are no heedless eyes or ears in the audience, of which I am the only white member--and a very lucky one, in that I, an “Americano,” am allowed to hear these jealously guarded stories, and to see the silent smoke-prayer which would never be made if a stranger were present.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
4	heedless	heedless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
15	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	reparandum	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Americano	Americano	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
36	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	43	det	_	_
41	jealously	jealously	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	guarded	guard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	amod	_	_
43	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
49	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
50	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
53	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	57	nsubj:pass	_	_
54	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
55	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	57	advmod	_	_
56	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	aux:pass	_	_
57	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	acl:relcl	_	_
58	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	62	mark	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
61	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	cop	_	_
62	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | no heedless eyes or ears |  |  | the audience; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in audience=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | I | the only white member |  |  |  | which *obl*; a lucky one  I *parataxis*; a Americano *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **allow** | present · passive |  | the only white member |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **hear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the only white member *not said here* | this guarded stories |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 5 | **guard** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | jealously *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | the silent smoke prayer |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prayer=Stimulus |
| 7 | **not** **make** | would · passive |  | the silent smoke prayer |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 8 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a stranger |  |  |  |  | present *property* | tree rules |

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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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