The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 43

Here we have the meal that will stick!” and each threw a handful at the _omate_.

Who acts: we, meal, each · What happens: have, stick, throw · To what, where: meal, handful, omate

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 (we, meal, each), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 have	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meal	det
5	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 stick	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stick	aux
8	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 meal	acl:relcl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 stick	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 stick	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 threw	cc
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 threw	nsubj
13	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stick	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 handful	det
15	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threw	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 omate	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 omate	det
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	19 omate	punct
19	omate	omate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 threw	obl
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	19 omate	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	we	the meal	here	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient
2	stick	future	the meal			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	throw in a quote	past	each	a handful	the omate	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent handful=Theme at omate=Destination

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 43