The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 21

Then she made it to sit up, and put the molding-spoon in its hands, and the clay jars in front of it; and she herself flew up into the tree.

Who acts: Locust, skin, clay · What happens: make, sit up, put, jar, fly up · To what, where: skin, molding spoon, hands, front, tree

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Locust, skin, clay), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 made	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sit	mark
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	xcomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 sit	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 put	cc
10	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sit	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 spoon	det
12	molding	molding	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spoon	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 molding	punct
14	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 hands	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hands	nmod:poss
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 put	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 jars	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 jars	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 clay	det
21	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 jars	nsubj
22	jars	jar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 front	case
24	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 jars	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 front	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 flew	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 flew	cc
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 flew	nsubj
30	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 she	conj
31	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 flew	compound:prt
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 tree	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 tree	det
35	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flew	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Locust	skin		then		tree rules
2	sit up	to-infinitive	skin not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	put	infinitive	skin not said here	the molding spoon	skin's hands			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme in hand=Destination
4	jar	present	the clay		front of skin			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in front=Destination
5	fly up	past	Locust				into the tree result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into tree=Result

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 Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 21