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title: For a long time Ees-tée-ah Muts watched them, but at last one caught… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: For a long time Ees-tée-ah Muts watched them, but at last one caught sight of his face peering in at the hole. Who acts: Muts, face. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Sobbing Pine, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 29

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For a long time Ees-tée-ah Muts watched them, but at last one caught sight of his face peering in at the hole.

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**Who acts:** Muts, face · **What happens:** watch, catch, peer, sight · **To what, where:** Ees, Ees tée, face

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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 Sobbing Pine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Muts, face), 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:pg77804:28:29
# text = For a long time Ees-tée-ah Muts watched them, but at last one caught sight of his face peering in at the hole.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	Ees	Ees	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	tée	tée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
10	Muts	mut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
18	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	peering	peer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	in	in	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | Muts | Ees *= ee* |  |  |  | caught sight at last one of man's face *obl* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **catch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **peer** | gerund | man's face *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the hole | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hole=Theme |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | man's face |  |  |  | at last one | nom sight «cognition transitive»: at=obl of=patient |

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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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