The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 55

[51] All day long the fire burned, and the oven became hotter than it had ever been.

Who acts: fire, oven · What happens: burn, become, be · To what, where: 51

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 (fire, oven), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 51	punct
2	51	51	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 burned	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 51	punct
4	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burned	obl:unmarked
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 burned	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burned	nsubj
9	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 became	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 became	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 oven	det
13	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 became	nsubj
14	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 burned	conj
15	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 became	xcomp
16	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 been	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 been	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 been	aux
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 been	advmod
20	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 hotter	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 burned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	the fire	51	day	long property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	past	the oven			hot property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	be	past · perfect	fire		ever		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 55

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 55