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title: One day when he was about to start on a hunt, he asked his sister to… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: One day when he was about to start on a hunt, he asked his sister to look out for the Eagle during his absence. Who acts: Tái. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, with its dependency tree and 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui\[72\] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 15

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One day when he was about to start on a hunt, he asked his sister to look out for the Eagle during his absence.

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**Who acts:** Tái · **What happens:** be, start, ask, look out, absent · **To what, where:** hunt, sister

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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 Moqui\[72\] Boy and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tái), 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:pg77804:20:15
# text = One day when he was about to start on a hunt, he asked his sister to look out for the Eagle during his absence.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	iobj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	during	during	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Tái |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **start** | to-infinitive | Tái *not said here* |  |  | a hunt |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Tái |  | Tái's sister |  | day |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **look out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Tái *not said here* |  |  |  | during Tái's absence | for the Eagle | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for eagle=Theme |
| 5 | **absent** |  | Tái |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state 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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