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title: And this is why, to this very day, the Moquis will not keep an Eagle… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And this is why, to this very day, the Moquis will not keep an Eagle captive, though nearly all the other Pueblo towns have all the Eagle-prisoners they can get. Who acts: this, Moquis, other Pueblo towns, towns. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by C
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui\[72\] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 66

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And this is why, to this very day, the Moquis will not keep an Eagle captive, though nearly all the other Pueblo towns have all the Eagle-prisoners they can get.

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**Who acts:** this, Moquis, other Pueblo towns, towns · **What happens:** be, not keep, have, get · **To what, where:** Eagle captive, Eagle prisoners

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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 (this, Moquis, other Pueblo towns, towns), 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:pg77804:20:66
# text = And this is why, to this very day, the Moquis will not keep an Eagle captive, though nearly all the other Pueblo towns have all the Eagle-prisoners they can get.
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	,	_	15	punct	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Moquis	Moquis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	captive	captive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
21	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	Pueblo	pueblo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **not** **keep** | future | the Moquis | a Eagle captive |  |  | day |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captive=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | all other Pueblo towns | all Eagle prisoners |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=Patient |
| 4 | **get** | can | towns *= town* | all Eagle prisoners *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prisoner=Stimulus |

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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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