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title: But his wife said: “But before you cut him up, get me the liver, for… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But his wife said: “But before you cut him up, get me the liver, for I am very hungry”--and the liver is that which all the foxes like best. Who acts: wife, you, liver. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Honest Big-ears, wit
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 34

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But his wife said: “But before you cut him up, get me the liver, for I am very hungry”--and the liver is that which all the foxes like best.

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**Who acts:** wife, you, liver · **What happens:** say, cut up, get, be · **To what, where:** man, liver, wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Honest Big-ears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, you, liver), 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:pg77804:17:34
# text = But his wife said: “But before you cut him up, get me the liver, for I am very hungry”--and the liver is that which all the foxes like best.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	liver	liver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	liver	liver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	ccomp	_	_
32	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	34	det:predet	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
35	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man's wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **cut up** *in a quote* | present | you | man |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the liver | man's wife *= wife* |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary liver=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | man's wife *= wife* |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the liver |  |  |  |  | all foxes *nsubj* | 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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