© Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).The formalism of short-distance factorization, conveyed through the pseudo-distribution approach, connects space-like and light-cone correlators and thus allows for the extraction in lattice QCD of a number of parton distributions. We compute the t-dependent parton distribution function of valence quarks in a ?c-meson. After reviewing the main ideas behind the pseudo-distribution formalism, and relying on the analytic structure of Ioffe-time distributions, we come up with a proposal for a model-independent extraction of t-dependent parton distribution functions. We present results for the ?c-meson Ioffe time valence t-dependent parton distribution function at a renormalization scale of 3 GeV.