--- title: He is indeed impressively deliberate as he slowly makes a cigarette… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: He is indeed impressively deliberate as he slowly makes a cigarette from a bit of corn-husk and a pinch of tobacco, lights it upon a coal raked out of the fireplace by his withered fingers, blows a slow puff eastward, then one to the north, another to the west, a fourth to the south, one straight ab --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/15/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The man who married the moon, and othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/) / [The Magic Hide-and-seek](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/15/) / 11 # The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 11 He is indeed impressively deliberate as he slowly makes a cigarette from a bit of corn-husk and a pinch of tobacco, lights it upon a coal raked out of the fireplace by his withered fingers, blows a slow puff eastward, then one to the north, another to the west, a fourth to the south, one straight above his head, and one down toward the floor. **Who acts:** Grandfather, coal · **What happens:** be, make, light, rake out, wither, blow · **To what, where:** cigarette, bit, fireplace, slow puff, west, tobacco This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-seek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grandfather, coal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:15:11 # text = He is indeed impressively deliberate as he slowly makes a cigarette from a bit of corn-husk and a pinch of tobacco, lights it upon a coal raked out of the fireplace by his withered fingers, blows a slow puff eastward, then one to the north, another to the west, a fourth to the south, one straight above his head, and one down toward the floor. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 impressively impressively ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 deliberate deliberate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 cigarette cigarette NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 husk husk NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 pinch pinch NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 tobacco tobacco NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 lights light VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 upon upon SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 coal coal NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 raked rake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 31 out out ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 fireplace fireplace NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 withered wither VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 amod _ _ 38 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 blows blow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 puff puff NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 44 eastward eastward ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 46 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 52 advmod _ _ 47 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 52 nsubj _ _ 48 to to ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 52 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 40 obl _ _ 53 to to ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 west west NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 57 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 fourth fourth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 59 to to ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 63 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 67 nsubj _ _ 64 straight straight ADV RB _ 67 advmod _ _ 65 above above ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 66 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 67 nmod:poss _ _ 67 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 68 , , PUNCT , _ 74 punct _ _ 69 and and CCONJ CC _ 74 cc _ _ 70 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 74 nsubj _ _ 71 down down ADP RP _ 70 compound:prt _ _ 72 toward toward ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 73 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 74 det _ _ 74 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 75 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Grandfather | | | | | a fourth to the south and Grandfather's head *parataxis*; the floor one *conj*; deliberate, impressively, indeed *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | Grandfather | a cigarette | | a bit of corn husk and a pinch of tobacco | | slowly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent cigarette=Product from bit=Material | | 3 | **light** | present | Grandfather *not said here* | cigarette | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | | 4 | **rake out** | past | a coal | the fireplace by Grandfather's withered fingers | | | | | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent fireplace=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **wither** | participle | | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **blow** | present | Grandfather *not said here* | a slow puff | the west | | | another *obl*; eastward *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent puff=Patient to west=Recipient | | 7 | **pinch** | | | tobacco | | | | | nom pinch «state transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/15/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/15/12/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Hide-and-seek](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/15/)