The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 63

But in the morning when she unsealed the oven, there were the two boys, laughing and playing together unhurt--for the Wháy-nin[52] had come to their aid and protected them from the heat.

Who acts: breakfast, two boys, Wháy nin · What happens: unseal, be, laugh, play, come, protect · To what, where: oven, aid, boys

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 (breakfast, two boys, Wháy nin), 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	_	12 were	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 morning	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 were	obl
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 unsealed	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 unsealed	nsubj
7	unsealed	unseal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 morning	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 oven	det
9	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 unsealed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 were	expl
12	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boys	det
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 boys	nummod
15	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 were	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 laughing	punct
17	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 were	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 playing	cc
19	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 laughing	conj
20	together	together	ADV	_	19 playing	advmod
21	unhurt	unhurt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 playing	xcomp
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 nin	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	27 nin	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 nin	det
25	Wháy	Wháy	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 nin	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Wháy	punct
27	nin	nin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	nsubj
28	[	[	PUNCT	_	29 52	punct
29	52	52	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 nin	appos
30	]	]	PUNCT	_	29 52	punct
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 come	aux
32	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 playing	parataxis
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 aid	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 aid	nmod:poss
35	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 protected	cc
37	protected	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 come	conj
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 protected	obj
39	from	from	ADP	_	41 heat	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 heat	det
41	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 protected	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unseal	past	breakfast	the oven				vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oven=Patient
2	be	past	the two boys		there	morning		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	laugh	gerund	the two boys not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	play	gerund	the two boys not said here				together, unhurt property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come	past · perfect	the Wháy nin		boys's aid			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial_Location
6	protect	past	the Wháy nin not said here	boys = boy			from the heat	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary from heat=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 63

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 63