The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 29

The Yellow-Corn-Maidens worked hardest of all; day and night for four days they ground and ground, with all the magic spells they knew.

Who acts: Yellow Corn Maidens, Maidens, magic · What happens: work, ground, spell, know · To what, where: hardest

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 (Yellow Corn Maidens, Maidens, magic), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Maidens	det
2	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Maidens	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Yellow	punct
4	Corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Maidens	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Corn	punct
6	Maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 worked	nsubj
7	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 worked	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 hardest	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 day	punct
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worked	obl:unmarked
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 night	cc
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 day	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 days	case
16	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 days	nummod
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ground	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ground	nsubj
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worked	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ground	cc
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ground	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 spells	punct
23	with	with	SCONJ	_	27 spells	mark
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 magic	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 magic	det
26	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 spells	nsubj
27	spells	spell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 worked	parataxis
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 knew	nsubj
29	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 spells	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 worked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	the Yellow Corn Maidens	hardest	day		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent hard=Material
2	ground		Maidens = maiden		day	ground conj	tree rules
3	spell	present	all magic				tree rules
4	know	past	Maidens = maiden				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 29

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 29