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title: One day, when the _kot-chin-á-ka_ was roasting cactus-leaves, there… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, when the _kot-chin-á-ka_ was roasting cactus-leaves, there came another handsome stranger with a sunny smile and stood beside her. Who acts: chin á, handsome stranger. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The North Wi
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 14

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One day, when the \_kot-chin-á-ka\_ was roasting cactus-leaves, there came another handsome stranger with a sunny smile and stood beside her.

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**Who acts:** chin á, handsome stranger · **What happens:** roast, come, stand · **To what, where:** cactus leaves

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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 North Wind and the South Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chin á, handsome stranger), 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:pg77804:21:14
# text = One day, when the _kot-chin-á-ka_ was roasting cactus-leaves, there came another handsome stranger with a sunny smile and stood beside her.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	kot	kot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	á	á	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	ka	ka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	roasting	roast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
17	cactus	cactus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
24	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
32	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roast** | past · progressive | the chin á | cactus leaves |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past | another handsome stranger with a sunny smile |  |  | there | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past | another handsome stranger with a sunny smile *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beside stranger | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=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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