The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 137

When he had finished the song, all could see that the flower had begun to grow, so that it lifted the upper _manta_ a little.

Who acts: Scarcely, all, flower, song · What happens: finish, see, begin, grow, lift · To what, where: song, upper manta

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 (Scarcely, all, flower, song), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 finished	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 song	det
6	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finished	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 see	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 finished	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 begun	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flower	det
13	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 begun	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 begun	aux
15	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 see	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 grow	mark
17	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 begun	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lifted	punct
19	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 lifted	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 so	fixed
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lifted	nsubj
22	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 see	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 manta	det
24	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 manta	amod
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	24 upper	punct
26	manta	manta	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lifted	obj
27	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 lifted	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 little	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lifted	obl:unmarked
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	Scarcely	the song		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector song=Eventuality
2	see	could	all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	begin	past · perfect	the flower			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	grow	to-infinitive	the flower not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lift	past	song	the upper manta	a little obl:unmarked	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manta=Theme

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 137

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 137