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title: [68] The smoking of the pungent _weer_ is a very severe ordeal; and… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [68] The smoking of the pungent _weer_ is a very severe ordeal; and it is a disgrace to let any of the smoke escape from the mouth or nose. Who acts: smoking, any. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accursed Lake, with i
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 78

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\[68\] The smoking of the pungent \_weer\_ is a very severe ordeal; and it is a disgrace to let any of the smoke escape from the mouth or nose.

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**Who acts:** smoking, any · **What happens:** be, let, escape, smoke · **To what, where:** severe ordeal, disgrace, any, mouth, 68, pungent weer \_

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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 Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smoking, any), 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:pg77804:19:79
# text = [68] The smoking of the pungent _weer_ is a very severe ordeal; and it is a disgrace to let any of the smoke escape from the mouth or nose.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	68	68	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	smoking	smoking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	pungent	pungent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	weer	wee	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	ordeal	ordeal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	disgrace	disgrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the smoking of the pungent weer \_ | a severe ordeal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | smoking | a disgrace |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | to-infinitive |  | any of the smoke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **escape** | infinitive | any of the smoke *not said here* |  |  | the mouth or nose |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from mouth=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **smoke** |  |  | the pungent weer \_ |  |  |  |  | nom smoking «act 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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