The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 115

They were at a loss which way to turn; but at last they thought: We will go to P’ah-kú-ee-teh-áy-deh,[37] who can find the dead--for surely she is dead, or the others would have found her.

Who acts: people, We, kú ee, teh áy deh, ee · What happens: be, turn, think, go, deh, find · To what, where: loss, last, P’ah, dead, others · 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 Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, We, kú ee, teh áy deh), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loss	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loss	cop
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 loss	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 loss	det
5	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loss	appos
8	to	to	PART	_	9 turn	mark
9	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 way	acl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 thought	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 last	case
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thought	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loss	parataxis
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
17	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 go	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 go	aux
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thought	ccomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 P’ah	case
21	P’ah	P'ah	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 deh	obl
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 P’ah	punct
23	kú	kú	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ee	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 kú	punct
25	ee	ee	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 deh	nsubj
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 teh	punct
27	teh	teh	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 deh	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 áy	punct
29	áy	áy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 deh	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 áy	punct
31	deh	deh	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 37	punct
33	[	[	PUNCT	_	34 37	punct
34	37	37	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 deh	appos
35	]	]	PUNCT	_	34 37	punct
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 find	nsubj
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 find	aux
38	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 deh	parataxis
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 dead	det
40	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 find	obj
41	--	--	PUNCT	_	46 dead	punct
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 surely	case
43	surely	surely	ADV	_	46 dead	obl
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 dead	nsubj
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 dead	cop
46	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 find	parataxis
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 found	punct
48	or	or	CCONJ	_	53 found	cc
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 others	det
50	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 found	nsubj:pass
51	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 found	aux
52	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 found	aux
53	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 dead	conj
54	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 found	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 loss	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	people			a loss	which way appos	tree rules
2	turn	to-infinitive	people not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	people			last		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	go	future	We					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	deh		kú ee		P’ah		37 appos	tree rules
6	find	can	teh áy deh	the dead				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Topic
7	is	present	ee				dead property	tree rules
8	find	would · perfect · passive		the others			ee obj	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme she=Attribute

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 Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 115