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title: And Desiderio, clearing his throat and making a new cigarette with g… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Desiderio, clearing his throat and making a new cigarette with great impressiveness, begins: “My sons, do you know why the Coyote and the Crows are always at war? Who acts: Desiderio, sons, Coyote. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Flet
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 91

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And Desiderio, clearing his throat and making a new cigarette with great impressiveness, begins: “My sons, do you know why the Coyote and the Crows are always at war?

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**Who acts:** Desiderio, sons, Coyote · **What happens:** clear, make, begin, know, be · **To what, where:** throat, new cigarette, war · **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 Antelope Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Desiderio, sons, Coyote), 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:pg77804:3:93
# text = And Desiderio, clearing his throat and making a new cigarette with great impressiveness, begins: “My sons, do you know why the Coyote and the Crows are always at war?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Desiderio	Desiderio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	clearing	clear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cigarette	cigarette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	impressiveness	impressiveness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
25	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Crows	Crow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	34	advmod	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clear** | gerund | Desiderio | Desiderio's throat |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent throat=Source |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | Desiderio *not said here* | a new cigarette |  |  |  | with great impressiveness | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cigarette=Product |
| 3 | **begin** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | My sons |  |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Coyote and the Crows |  |  | war |  | always *property* | 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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