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title: His eyes were good to find about as much through the sights of a rif… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: His eyes were good to find about as much through the sights of a rifle as anybody’s; and on the whole he was worth a good deal more than I expect to be some seventy years from now. Who acts: eyes, Desiderio, I. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Cha
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 60

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His eyes were good to find about as much through the sights of a rifle as anybody’s; and on the whole he was worth a good deal more than I expect to be some seventy years from now.

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**Who acts:** eyes, Desiderio, I · **What happens:** be, find, expect, sight · **To what, where:** whole, seventy years, rifle

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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 Hungry Grandfathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, Desiderio, I), 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:pg77804:32:60
# text = His eyes were good to find about as much through the sights of a rifle as anybody’s; and on the whole he was worth a good deal more than I expect to be some seventy years from now.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sights	sight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rifle	rifle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	obj	_	_
31	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	expect	expect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
36	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	det	_	_
37	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Desiderio's eyes |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | as anybody | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent as anybody=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | past | Desiderio |  |  | the whole |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **expect** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | some seventy years |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | a rifle |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: 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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