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title: For his ears cannot lie back, as is well for beasts, but always poin… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: For his ears cannot lie back, as is well for beasts, but always point straight forward, as Sun-Arrow pulled them. Who acts: Sun Arrow. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brave Bobtails, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 126

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For his ears cannot lie back, as is well for beasts, but always point straight forward, as Sun-Arrow pulled them.

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**Who acts:** Sun Arrow · **What happens:** not lie back, be, point, pull · **To what, where:** beasts

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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 Brave Bobtails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun Arrow), 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:pg77804:26:127
# text = For his ears cannot lie back, as is well for beasts, but always point straight forward, as Sun-Arrow pulled them.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	lie	lie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	point	point	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
18	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Arrow	Arrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **lie back** | can |  |  |  |  |  | for deh's ears | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **be** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for beasts; well *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **point** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | always, forward *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pull** | past | Sun Arrow | beasts *= beast* |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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