--- title: “_Pee-oo-weé-deh_ [little Deer], why are you so prettily spotted, an… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: “_Pee-oo-weé-deh_ [little Deer], why are you so prettily spotted, and why do you have your eyelids red, while we are so ugly?” Who acts: you, we. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:27:52 # text = “_Pee-oo-weé-deh_ [little Deer], why are you so prettily spotted, and why do you have your eyelids red, while we are so ugly?” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Pee pee NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 oo oo NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 weé weé NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 deh deh NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 9 punct _ _ 11 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 Deer Deer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 prettily prettily ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 spotted spot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 25 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 parataxis _ _ 28 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 eyelids eyelid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 while while SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ? ? PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spot** *in a quote* | present · passive | | you | | | | prettily *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | your eyelids | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | we | | | | | ugly *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/27/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/27/52/) - ↑ back to [The Revenge of the Fawns](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/27/)