The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 21

And they called T’hoor-íd-deh and P’áh-hlee-oh before them to say what must be done.

Who acts: children · What happens: call, say, do · To what, where: T’hoor íd deh · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (children), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 called	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	T’hoor	t'hoor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deh	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 T’hoor	punct
6	íd	íd	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deh	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 deh	punct
8	deh	deh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hlee	cc
10	P’áh	P'áh	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 hlee	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 P’áh	punct
12	hlee	hlee	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deh	conj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 oh	punct
14	oh	oh	INTJ	_	12 hlee	discourse
15	before	before	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 say	mark
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 called	advcl
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 done	obj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 done	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 done	aux:pass
22	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 say	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	children = child	T’hoor íd deh and P’áh hlee	before deh		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	children = child not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	must · passive				what obj	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality

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 21

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 21