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title: His back against the wall, squats my host, who is just going to begi… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: His back against the wall, squats my host, who is just going to begin another fairy story. Who acts: back, host. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brown Story-tellers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 85

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His back against the wall, squats my host, who is just going to begin another fairy story.

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**Who acts:** back, host · **What happens:** squat, go, begin · **To what, where:** host, fairy story

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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 (back, host), 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:pg77804:2:86
# text = His back against the wall, squats my host, who is just going to begin another fairy story.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	against	against	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	squats	squat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squat** | present | log's back against the wall | my host |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme host=Location |
| 2 | **go** | present · progressive | my host |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **begin** | to-infinitive | my host *not said here* | another fairy story |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality |

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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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