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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 3

It happened that a Locust was making pottery, under a tree; and every time she moved the molding-spoon around the soft clay jar, she sang a song.

Who acts: It, Locust · What happens: happen, make, move, sing · To what, where: pottery, tree, molding spoon, soft clay jar, song

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 (It, Locust), 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

nsubjmarkdetnsubjauxadvclobjpunctcasedetoblpunctccdetobl:unmarkednsubjparataxisdetcompoundpunctobjcasedetamodcompoundoblpunctnsubjconjdetobjpunctrootItPRONhappenedVERBthatSCONJaDETLocustPROPNwasAUXmakingVERBpotteryNOUN,PUNCTunderADPaDETtreeNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJeveryDETtimeNOUNshePRONmovedVERBtheDETmoldingNOUN-PUNCTspoonNOUNaroundADPtheDETsoftADJclayNOUNjarNOUN,PUNCTshePRONsangVERBaDETsongNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 happenednsubj
2happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thatthatSCONJ_7 makingmark
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 Locustdet
5LocustLocustPROPNNumber=Sing7 makingnsubj
6wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 makingaux
7makingmakeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 happenedadvcl
8potterypotteryNOUNNumber=Sing7 makingobj
9,,PUNCT_12 treepunct
10underunderADP_12 treecase
11aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 treedet
12treetreeNOUNNumber=Sing7 makingobl
13;;PUNCT_18 movedpunct
14andandCCONJ_18 movedcc
15everyeveryDETPronType=Tot16 timedet
16timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing18 movedobl:unmarked
17sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 movednsubj
18movedmoveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 happenedparataxis
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 spoondet
20moldingmoldingNOUNNumber=Sing22 spooncompound
21--PUNCT_20 moldingpunct
22spoonspoonNOUNNumber=Sing18 movedobj
23aroundaroundADP_27 jarcase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 jardet
25softsoftADJDegree=Pos27 jaramod
26clayclayNOUNNumber=Sing27 jarcompound
27jarjarNOUNNumber=Sing18 movedobl
28,,PUNCT_30 sangpunct
29sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 sangnsubj
30sangsingVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 movedconj
31aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 songdet
32songsongNOUNNumber=Sing30 sangobj
33..PUNCT_2 happenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1happenpastItvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2makepast · progressivea Locustpotterya treevn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pottery=Product
3movepastLocustthe molding spoonthe soft clay jartimevn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme around jar=Trajectory
4sing speech: expresspastLocusta songvn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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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