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title: But most of the time he had to be away from home, attending to the s… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But most of the time he had to be away from home, attending to the storms, and she became very lonesome, for there was no one to keep her company but Mast-Truan’s wrinkled old mother. Who acts: most, Truan, one, Truan ’s. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stor
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 8

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But most of the time he had to be away from home, attending to the storms, and she became very lonesome, for there was no one to keep her company but Mast-Truan’s wrinkled old mother.

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**Who acts:** most, Truan, one, Truan ’s · **What happens:** have, be, attend, become, keep, wrinkle · **To what, where:** home, company, old mother

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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, A Pueblo Bluebeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most, Truan, one, Truan ’s), 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:pg77804:30:8
# text = But most of the time he had to be away from home, attending to the storms, and she became very lonesome, for there was no one to keep her company but Mast-Truan’s wrinkled old mother.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	xcomp	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	attending	attend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	lonesome	lonesome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
27	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
35	Mast	Mast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Truan	Truan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’s	'	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
40	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | most of the time |  |  |  |  | stranger *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | most of the time *not said here* |  |  | home |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **attend** | gerund | most of the time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the storms | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to storm=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | past | Truan |  |  |  |  | lonesome *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **be** | past | no one |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **keep** | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | Truan's company |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme |
| 7 | **wrinkle** | past | Truan ’s | old mother |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mother=Patient |

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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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