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title: And this is why, ever since, Big-ears strikes with his hind feet if… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And this is why, ever since, Big-ears strikes with his hind feet if anything comes behind him slyly; for he remembers how Too-wháy-deh stole the cheese. Who acts: this, Big ears, anything, master. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 40

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And this is why, ever since, Big-ears strikes with his hind feet if anything comes behind him slyly; for he remembers how Too-wháy-deh stole the cheese.

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**Who acts:** this, Big ears, anything, master, wháy deh · **What happens:** be, strike, come, remember, steal · **To what, where:** cheese · **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 (this, Big ears, anything, master), 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:pg77804:17:40
# text = And this is why, ever since, Big-ears strikes with his hind feet if anything comes behind him slyly; for he remembers how Too-wháy-deh stole the cheese.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	since	since	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	strikes	strike	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
19	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
20	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	slyly	slyly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	remembers	remember	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
28	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	wháy	wháy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	deh	deh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | this |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **strike** | present | Big ears |  |  |  |  | with master's hind feet | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with foot=Theme |
| 3 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | anything |  |  |  |  | behind master; slyly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Location |
| 4 | **remember** | present | master |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **steal** | past | wháy deh | the cheese |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cheese=Theme |

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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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