The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 101

He pauses only to make a cigarette from the material in my pouch (they call me _Por todos_, because I have tobacco “for all”), explains for my benefit that this is a story of the beginning of Isleta, pats the head of the chubby boy at his knee, and begins again.

Who acts: Lorenso, stories, I, this · What happens: pause, make, call, have, explain, be · To what, where: cigarette, material, me, tobacco, story, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lorenso, stories, I, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pauses	nsubj
2	pauses	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 make	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pauses	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cigarette	det
7	cigarette	cigarette	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 material	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 material	det
10	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 pouch	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 pouch	nmod:poss
13	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obl
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 call	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 call	nsubj
16	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 make	parataxis
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 call	obj
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	20 todos	punct
19	Por	Por	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 todos	compound
20	todos	todo	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 call	xcomp
21	_	_	PUNCT	_	20 todos	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 have	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 call	conj
26	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 explains	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 all	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 explains	obl
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 all	punct
31	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 all	punct
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 all	punct
33	explains	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 have	parataxis
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 benefit	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 benefit	nmod:poss
36	benefit	benefit	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 explains	obl
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 story	mark
38	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 story	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 story	cop
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 story	det
41	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 benefit	appos
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 beginning	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 beginning	det
44	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 story	nmod
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 Isleta	case
46	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 beginning	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 pats	punct
48	pats	pat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 explains	conj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 head	det
50	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 pats	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	54 boy	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 boy	det
53	chubby	chubby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 boy	amod
54	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 head	nmod
55	at	at	ADP	_	57 knee	case
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 knee	nmod:poss
57	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 pats	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 begins	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 begins	cc
60	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 explains	conj
61	again	again	ADV	_	60 begins	advmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pauses	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pause	present	Lorenso						tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	Lorenso not said here	a cigarette		the material		in my pouch	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset cigarette=Product from material=Material
3	call	present	stories = story		me			Por todos xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	have	present	I	tobacco					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tobacco=Patient
5	explain speech: assert	present						for all; for my benefit	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	this	a story			of the beginning of Isleta		tree rules
7	pat	present		the head of the chubby boy		Lorenso's knee			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Experiencer
8	begin	present					again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
9	begin			Isleta					nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient

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.

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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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 101