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title: But only the birds and the snakes, who were not at the Council of th… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But only the birds and the snakes, who were not at the Council of the Four feet, they do not respect T’hoo-chée-deh. Who acts: birds, feet. 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 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 54

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But only the birds and the snakes, who were not at the Council of the Four feet, they do not respect T’hoo-chée-deh.

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**Who acts:** birds, feet · **What happens:** not be, not respect · **To what, where:** Council, T’hoo, birds

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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 (birds, feet), 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:pg77804:34:55
# text = But only the birds and the snakes, who were not at the Council of the Four feet, they do not respect T’hoo-chée-deh.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	respect	respect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
24	T’hoo	T'hoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	chée	chée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	deh	deh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | the birds and the snakes and the Council |  |  | the Council |  | of the Four feet | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **respect** | present · do-support | feet *= foot* | T’hoo  chée and deh |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer t'hoo=Stimulus |

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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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