The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 147

When his wife told him how the witch-sisters had done, he was very angry; and that very day he made a beautiful hoop to play the _mah-khúr_.

Who acts: wife, earth · What happens: tell, do, be, make, play · To what, where: earth, witch sisters, beautiful hoop, mah khúr · 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 (wife, earth), 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	SCONJ	_	4 told	mark
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 done	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sisters	det
8	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sisters	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 witch	punct
10	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 done	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 done	aux
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 told	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 angry	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 angry	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 angry	cop
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 angry	advmod
17	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 done	parataxis
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 day	det
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 day	advmod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obl:unmarked
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 made	nsubj
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hoop	det
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hoop	amod
27	hoop	hoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 play	mark
29	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 hoop	acl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 khúr	det
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	34 khúr	punct
32	mah	mah	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 khúr	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 mah	punct
34	khúr	khúr	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 play	obj
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	earth's wife		earth			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do	past · perfect · passive		the witch sisters				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	is	past	earth				angry property	tree rules
4	make	past	earth	a beautiful hoop		day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoop=Product
5	play	to-infinitive	earth not said here	the mah khúr				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent khúr=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 147

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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 147