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title: But shrilly as the cold night-wind outside hinted the wisdom of spee… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But shrilly as the cold night-wind outside hinted the wisdom of speedy cobbling, Patricio had no wish to acquire that burro’s tail, so, laying the rawhide and knife upon the floor beside him, he deliberately rolled a modest pinch of the aromatic _koo-ah-rée_ in a corn-husk, lighted it at the coals, 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 5

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But shrilly as the cold night-wind outside hinted the wisdom of speedy cobbling, Patricio had no wish to acquire that burro’s tail, so, laying the rawhide and knife upon the floor beside him, he deliberately rolled a modest pinch of the aromatic \_koo-ah-rée\_ in a corn-husk, lighted it at the coals, and drew Benito’s tousled head to his side.

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**Who acts:** cold night wind, Patricio, corn husk, Benito · **What happens:** hint, have, acquire, lay, roll, light · **To what, where:** wisdom, wish, tail, rawhide, floor, modest pinch

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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 (cold night wind, Patricio, corn husk, Benito), 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:pg77804:8:5
# text = But shrilly as the cold night-wind outside hinted the wisdom of speedy cobbling, Patricio had no wish to acquire that burro’s tail, so, laying the rawhide and knife upon the floor beside him, he deliberately rolled a modest pinch of the aromatic _koo-ah-rée_ in a corn-husk, lighted it at the coals, and drew Benito’s tousled head to his side.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	shrilly	shrilly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	hinted	hint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	speedy	speedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cobbling	cobbling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Patricio	Patricio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	acquire	acquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	burro	burro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	rawhide	rawhide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
38	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	deliberately	deliberately	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	modest	modest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	pinch	pinch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
49	aromatic	aromatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
50	_	_	PUNCT	HYPH	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	koo	koo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	55	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	rée	rée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	61	punct	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
59	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	husk	husk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
63	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	61	acl	_	_
64	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	obj	_	_
65	at	at	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
66	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
67	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
69	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	70	cc	_	_
70	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	parataxis	_	_
71	Benito	Benito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	73	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	’s	'	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	73	nsubj	_	_
73	tousled	tousle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	70	conj	_	_
74	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	obj	_	_
75	to	to	ADP	IN	_	77	case	_	_
76	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	77	nmod:poss	_	_
77	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hint** *speech: other* | past | the cold night wind | the wisdom of speedy cobbling |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wisdom=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | past | Patricio | no wish |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient |
| 3 | **acquire** | to-infinitive | Patricio *not said here* | that burro's tail |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tail=Theme |
| 4 | **lay** | gerund |  | the rawhide and knife |  | the floor |  | beside Patricio | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rawhide=Theme upon floor=Destination |
| 5 | **roll** | past | Patricio | a modest pinch of the aromatic koo and rée |  | a corn husk |  | deliberately *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent pinch=Theme in husk=Trajectory |
| 6 | **light** | participle | a corn husk *not said here* | rawhide |  | the coals |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 7 | **draw** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **tousle** | past | Benito | head |  |  |  | to Benito's side; ’s *nsubj* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 10 | **pinch** |  |  | the aromatic koo and rée |  |  |  |  | nom pinch «state transitive»: of=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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