The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 35

It was only upon the fourth day that she returned to town, and in a few moments the girls were to go with their meal to test it upon the magic dipper.

Who acts: proclamation, Shee, few moments · What happens: be, return, go, test · To what, where: fourth day, town, proclamation

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 (proclamation, Shee, few moments), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 day	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 day	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 day	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 returned	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 returned	nsubj
10	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 day	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 town	case
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 returned	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 moments	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 moments	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 moments	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 moments	det
17	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 moments	amod
18	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 day	nmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 girls	det
20	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 moments	conj
21	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 moments	acl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 go	mark
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 were	xcomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 meal	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 meal	nmod:poss
26	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 test	mark
28	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 go	advcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 test	obj
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 dipper	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 dipper	det
32	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 dipper	amod
33	dipper	dipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 test	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 day	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	proclamation			upon the fourth day; moment		tree rules
2	return	past	Shee	the fourth day not said here	town			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent day=Theme to town=Destination
3	be	past	a few moments and the girls not said here					tree rules
4	go	to-infinitive	a few moments and the girls not said here				with girls's meal	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with meal=Beneficiary
5	test	to-infinitive	a few moments and the girls not said here	proclamation			upon the magic dipper	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 35