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title: And is that why we must never hurt the Field-Mouse, but show him res… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And is that why we must never hurt the Field-Mouse, but show him respect, as to elders?” Who acts: we. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Doctor Field-mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 112

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And is that why we must never hurt the Field-Mouse, but show him respect, as to elders?”

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** not hurt, be, respect · **To what, where:** Field Mouse, Coyote

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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, Doctor Field-mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg77804:34:115
# text = And is that why we must never hurt the Field-Mouse, but show him respect, as to elders?”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
4	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	show	show	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	respect	respect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hurt** | must | we | the Field Mouse |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  | Coyote |  |  | show *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **respect** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | elders *conj* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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