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title: “NOW there is a tail to you, _compadre_ [friend],” said old Desideri… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “NOW there is a tail to you, _compadre_ [friend],” said old Desiderio, nodding at Patricio[18] after we had sat awhile in silence around the crackling fire. Who acts: tail, we. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 1

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“NOW there is a tail to you, \_compadre\_ \[friend\],” said old Desiderio, nodding at Patricio\[18\] after we had sat awhile in silence around the crackling fire.

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**Who acts:** tail, we · **What happens:** be, say, nod, sit · **To what, where:** tail, you, Patricio, silence · **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 First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tail, we), 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:pg77804:8:1
# text = “NOW there is a tail to you, _compadre_ [friend],” said old Desiderio, nodding at Patricio[18] after we had sat awhile in silence around the crackling fire.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	NOW	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	compadre	compadre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	_
13	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Desiderio	Desiderio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	nodding	nod	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Patricio	Patricio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
28	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	sat	sit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	ccomp	_	_
32	awhile	awhile	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	around	around	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	crackling	crackling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | a tail and compadre | you |  |  | compadre *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a tail and compadre |  |  |  |  | old Desiderio *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **nod** | gerund | a tail and compadre *not said here* |  |  | Patricio |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sit** | past · perfect | we |  |  | silence |  | around the crackling fire; awhile *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location |

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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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