The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 74

He said nothing about it, but talked pleasantly while he munched the piñon-nuts, giving her the pine-seeds to eat.

Who acts: Acoma · What happens: say, talk, munch, give, eat · To what, where: nothing, piñon nuts, pine seeds, wife · 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 Sobbing Pine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Acoma), 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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 said	obj
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nothing	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 talked	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 talked	cc
8	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
9	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	_	8 talked	advmod
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 munched	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 munched	nsubj
12	munched	munch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 talked	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 nuts	det
14	piñon	piñon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nuts	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 piñon	punct
16	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 munched	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 giving	punct
18	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 munched	advcl
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 giving	iobj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 seeds	det
21	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seeds	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 pine	punct
23	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 giving	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 eat	mark
25	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 seeds	acl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Acoma	nothing		about tée	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	talk	past	Acoma not said here			pleasantly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	munch	past	Acoma	the piñon nuts			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient
4	give	gerund	Acoma not said here	the pine seeds	wife		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient seed=Theme
5	eat	to-infinitive	Acoma not said here	the pine seeds not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Sobbing Pine, sentence 74

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 74