The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 54

But the old woman went into the house and told her husband--who was as wicked as she--to get wood and build a big fire in the _horno_.

Who acts: old woman, husband · What happens: go, tell, be, get, build · To what, where: house, husband, wood, big fire, horno · 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 (old woman, husband), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 husband	nmod:poss
12	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	iobj
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 wicked	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 wicked	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wicked	cop
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 wicked	advmod
17	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 husband	amod
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 she	case
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wicked	obl
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 get	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	22 get	mark
22	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	ccomp
23	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 get	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 build	cc
25	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 get	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 fire	det
27	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fire	amod
28	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 build	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 horno	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 horno	det
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	32 horno	punct
32	horno	horno	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fire	nmod
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 build	discourse
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the old woman			the house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	the old woman not said here		woman's husband			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is	past	woman's husband				as woman; wicked property	tree rules
4	get not said to happen	to-infinitive		wood				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wood=Stimulus
5	build	present		a big fire		the horno		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product

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 54

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 54