The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 62

All that night she and her husband were chuckling to think what a nice breakfast they would have--for both of them were witch-people, and ate all the children they could find.

Who acts: woman, nice breakfast, both, woods · What happens: chuckle, think, have, be, eat, find · To what, where: children · 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 (woman, nice breakfast, both, woods), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 night	det:predet
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chuckling	obl:unmarked
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 chuckling	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 husband	cc
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 husband	nmod:poss
7	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 she	conj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 chuckling	aux
9	chuckling	chuckle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 think	mark
11	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 chuckling	xcomp
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 have	obj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 breakfast	det
14	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 breakfast	amod
15	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	nsubj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 think	ccomp
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 people	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	27 people	case
21	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	27 people	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 both	nmod
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 people	cop
25	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 people	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 witch	punct
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ate	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 ate	cc
30	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 chuckling	conj
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 children	det:predet
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 children	det
33	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 ate	obj
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 find	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 find	aux
36	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 children	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 chuckling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	chuckle	past · progressive	woman		night		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	woman not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	have	would	a nice breakfast			what obj; woods = wood nsubj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
4	is	past	both of woods			for witch people	tree rules
5	eat	past	woman not said here	all children			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
6	find	could	woods = wood	all children not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic

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 62

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 62