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title: Paying no attention to what was going on about him, he sat motionles… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Paying no attention to what was going on about him, he sat motionless upon the very crosspiece of the _estufa_ ladder--the highest point in all the town--with his head bowed upon his hands. Who acts: rú, head. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Char
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 91

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Paying no attention to what was going on about him, he sat motionless upon the very crosspiece of the \_estufa\_ ladder--the highest point in all the town--with his head bowed upon his hands.

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**Who acts:** rú, head · **What happens:** pay, go on, sit, bow · **To what, where:** attention, crosspiece, hands

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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 Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rú, head), 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:pg77804:10:92
# text = Paying no attention to what was going on about him, he sat motionless upon the very crosspiece of the _estufa_ ladder--the highest point in all the town--with his head bowed upon his hands.
1	Paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	1	obl	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	motionless	motionless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	crosspiece	crosspiece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	estufa	estufa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	_
24	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
38	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | gerund | rú *not said here* | no attention |  |  |  | what *obl* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
| 2 | **go on** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | about rú | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about he=Location |
| 3 | **sit** | past | rú |  |  | the crosspiece of the estufa ladder |  | motionless *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon crosspiece=Location |
| 4 | **bow** | past | rú's head |  |  | rú's hands |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon hand=Location |

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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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