The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 10

The birds flew always, the flowers never shut, the young people danced and sang, and none knew how to rest.

Who acts: birds, young people, none · What happens: fly, dance, sing, know, rest · To what, where: flowers

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Mother Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, young people, none), 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	2 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 flew	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 flowers	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flowers	det
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flew	obl
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 shut	advmod
9	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flowers	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 danced	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 people	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 people	amod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 danced	nsubj
14	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sang	cc
16	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 danced	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 knew	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 knew	cc
19	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	20 knew	nsubj
20	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 rest	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 rest	mark
23	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 knew	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the birds	the flowers	always property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dance	past	the young people			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sing speech: express	past	the young people not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	know	past	none			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	rest	to-infinitive	none not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Mother Moon, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 10