The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 4

It meant that old Ysidro[50] had just finished a story, which I had altogether missed, and was now calling upon the old man next him to tell one, by using the customary Pueblo saying:

Who acts: It, customary Pueblo · What happens: mean, finish, miss, call, tell, use · To what, where: old Ysidro, story, one, customary Pueblo · 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 Magic Hide-and-seek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, customary Pueblo), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 meant	nsubj
2	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 Ysidro	nsubj
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Ysidro	amod
5	Ysidro	Ysidro	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 finished	nsubj:pass
6	[	[	PUNCT	_	7 50	punct
7	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 Ysidro	appos
8	]	]	PUNCT	_	7 50	punct
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 finished	aux
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 finished	advmod
11	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 meant	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 story	det
13	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 finished	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 missed	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 missed	nsubj:pass
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 missed	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 missed	aux
18	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	19 missed	advmod
19	missed	miss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 story	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 calling	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 calling	cc
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 calling	aux
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 calling	advmod
24	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 meant	advcl
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 man	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 calling	obl
29	next	next	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 calling	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 tell	mark
32	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 calling	advcl
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 tell	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 using	punct
35	by	by	SCONJ	_	36 using	mark
36	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 tell	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Pueblo	det
38	customary	customary	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 Pueblo	compound
39	Pueblo	pueblo	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 using	obj
40	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 Pueblo	acl
41	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	It				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	finish	past · perfect · passive		old Ysidro that		a story obj	tree rules
3	miss	past · perfect · passive		a story		I nsubj; altogether property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	call	past · progressive			now	upon the old man; next Ysidro	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		one			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient
6	use	gerund		the customary Pueblo			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pueblo=Patient
7	say speech: assert	gerund	the customary Pueblo not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 4

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 4