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title: So the mother, still weeping, made some tortillas, and, strapping th… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the mother, still weeping, made some tortillas, and, strapping these to their belts, the young men set out. Who acts: mother. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Drowning of Pecos, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 34

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So the mother, still weeping, made some tortillas, and, strapping these to their belts, the young men set out.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** weep, make, strap, set out · **To what, where:** tortillas, these, young men

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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 Drowning of Pecos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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:pg77804:23:34
# text = So the mother, still weeping, made some tortillas, and, strapping these to their belts, the young men set out.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	tortillas	tortilla	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	strapping	strap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	belts	belt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	appos	_	_
23	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | gerund |  |  |  |  | still |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | past | the mother | some tortillas |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tortilla=Product |
| 3 | **strap** | gerund | the mother *not said here* | these |  |  |  | to tortillas's belts *result* | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent this=Patient to belt=Result |
| 4 | **set out** | participle |  | the young men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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