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title: He pauses only to make a cigarette from the material in my pouch (th… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: He pauses only to make a cigarette from the material in my pouch (they call me _Por todos_, because I have tobacco “for all”), explains for my benefit that this is a story of the beginning of Isleta, pats the head of the chubby boy at his knee, and begins again. Who acts: Lorenso, stories, I, this. 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 101

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He pauses only to make a cigarette from the material in my pouch (they call me \_Por todos\_, because I have tobacco “for all”), explains for my benefit that this is a story of the beginning of Isleta, pats the head of the chubby boy at his knee, and begins again.

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**Who acts:** Lorenso, stories, I, this · **What happens:** pause, make, call, have, explain, be · **To what, where:** cigarette, material, me, tobacco, story, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lorenso, stories, I, this), 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:pg77804:2:102
# text = He pauses only to make a cigarette from the material in my pouch (they call me _Por todos_, because I have tobacco “for all”), explains for my benefit that this is a story of the beginning of Isleta, pats the head of the chubby boy at his knee, and begins again.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pauses	pause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cigarette	cigarette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	pouch	pouch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Por	Por	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	todos	todo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
33	explains	explain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	benefit	benefit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
38	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	nsubj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	pats	pat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	chubby	chubby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
55	at	at	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
61	again	again	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pause** | present | Lorenso |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | Lorenso *not said here* | a cigarette |  | the material |  | in my pouch | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset cigarette=Product from material=Material |
| 3 | **call** | present | stories *= story* |  | me |  |  | Por todos *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 4 | **have** | present | I | tobacco |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tobacco=Patient |
| 5 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  | for all; for my benefit | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | present | this | a story |  |  | of the beginning of Isleta |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **pat** | present |  | the head of the chubby boy |  | Lorenso's knee |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Experiencer |
| 8 | **begin** | present |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 9 | **begin** |  |  | Isleta |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event 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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