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title: WHEN it came old Anastacio’s turn, one night, to tell a story to the… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: WHEN it came old Anastacio’s turn, one night, to tell a story to the waiting circle, it was several minutes before he responded to the quaint summons; and at last Lorenso repeated: “There is a tail to you, _compadre_ Anastacio!” Who acts: it, story, he. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, a
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 1

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WHEN it came old Anastacio’s turn, one night, to tell a story to the waiting circle, it was several minutes before he responded to the quaint summons; and at last Lorenso repeated: “There is a tail to you, \_compadre\_ Anastacio!”

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**Who acts:** it, story, he · **What happens:** come, tell, be, respond, repeat · **To what, where:** Anastacio turn, story, waiting circle, several minutes, last Lorenso, tail · **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 Brave Bobtails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, story, he), 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:pg77804:26:1
# text = WHEN it came old Anastacio’s turn, one night, to tell a story to the waiting circle, it was several minutes before he responded to the quaint summons; and at last Lorenso repeated: “There is a tail to you, _compadre_ Anastacio!”
1	WHEN	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	csubj	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Anastacio	Anastacio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
25	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	responded	respond	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	quaint	quaint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	summons	summon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	Lorenso	Lorenso	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
37	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
39	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	41	expl	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	compadre	compadre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	50	punct	_	_
50	Anastacio	Anastacio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	48	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | it | Anastacio turn |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | a story | the waiting circle |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to circle=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | story | several minutes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **respond** *speech: other* | past | he |  |  |  |  | to the quaint summons | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to summon=Theme |
| 5 | **repeat** | past |  |  |  | last Lorenso |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | a tail | you |  |  | compadre *appos* | tree rules |

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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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