The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 139

Again and again he sang; and when he had finished for the fourth time, it was plain to all that a human form lay between the two _mantas_.

Who acts: Scarcely, gourd, human form · What happens: sing, finish, be, lie · To what, where: two mantas

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, gourd, human form), 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	Again	again	ADV	_	5 sang	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 again	cc
3	again	again	ADV	_	1 Again	conj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sang	nsubj
5	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 finished	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 finished	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 finished	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 finished	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 finished	aux
11	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 sang	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 time	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 time	det
14	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 finished	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 plain	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 plain	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 plain	cop
19	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sang	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 plain	obl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 lay	mark
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 form	det
24	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 form	amod
25	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lay	nsubj
26	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 plain	advcl
27	between	between	ADP	_	31 mantas	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mantas	det
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 mantas	nummod
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	29 two	punct
31	mantas	manta	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lay	obl
32	_	_	PUNCT	_	26 lay	punct
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	Scarcely		again; again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	finish	past · perfect	Scarcely		time		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is	past	gourd			to all; plain property	tree rules
4	lie	past	a human form	the two mantas			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between manta=Location

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 139

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 139