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title: He said nothing about it, but talked pleasantly while he munched the… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: He said nothing about it, but talked pleasantly while he munched the piñon-nuts, giving her the pine-seeds to eat. Who acts: Acoma. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Sobbing Pine, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 74

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He said nothing about it, but talked pleasantly while he munched the piñon-nuts, giving her the pine-seeds to eat.

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**Who acts:** Acoma · **What happens:** say, talk, munch, give, eat · **To what, where:** nothing, piñon nuts, pine seeds, wife · **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 Sobbing Pine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Acoma), 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:pg77804:28:74
# text = He said nothing about it, but talked pleasantly while he munched the piñon-nuts, giving her the pine-seeds to eat.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	munched	munch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	piñon	piñon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Acoma | nothing |  |  |  | about tée | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 2 | **talk** | past | Acoma *not said here* |  |  |  |  | pleasantly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **munch** | past | Acoma | the piñon nuts |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | gerund | Acoma *not said here* | the pine seeds | wife |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient seed=Theme |
| 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Acoma *not said here* | the pine seeds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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