The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 45

The Yellow-Corn-Maidens were very angry, and instead of passing on as the others had done, they stood there and kept throwing and throwing at the _omate_, which smiled back at them with undiminished luster.

Who acts: Yellow Corn Maidens, others, Maidens · What happens: be, pass on, do, stand, keep, throw · To what, where: 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 (Yellow Corn Maidens, others, Maidens), 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	9 angry	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 angry	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 angry	advmod
9	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 passing	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 passing	cc
12	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 passing	mark
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 instead	fixed
14	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 angry	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	14 passing	compound:prt
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 done	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 others	det
18	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 done	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 done	aux
20	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 passing	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stood	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stood	nsubj
23	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 angry	parataxis
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 stood	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 kept	cc
26	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stood	conj
27	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 kept	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 throwing	cc
29	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 throwing	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 omate	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 omate	det
32	_	_	PUNCT	_	33 omate	punct
33	omate	omate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 throwing	obl
34	_	_	PUNCT	_	33 omate	punct
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 smiled	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 smiled	nsubj
37	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 throwing	conj
38	back	back	ADV	_	37 smiled	advmod
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 them	case
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 smiled	obl
41	with	with	ADP	_	43 luster	case
42	undiminished	undiminished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 luster	amod
43	luster	luster	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 smiled	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Yellow Corn Maidens		angry property	tree rules
2	pass on	gerund	the Yellow Corn Maidens not said here			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	do	past · perfect	the others			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stand	past	Maidens = maiden	there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	keep	past	Maidens = maiden not said here			tree rules
6	throw	gerund	Maidens = maiden not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	throw	gerund	Maidens = maiden not said here	the omate		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at omate=Destination
8	smile back	past			at Maidens = maiden; with undiminished luster; which nsubj	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 45