The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 67

When night came, the old woman cleaned the oven, which was twice as hot as before; and again she put in the boys and sealed it up.

Who acts: night, old woman, oven, woman · What happens: come, clean, be, put, seal up · To what, where: oven

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 (night, old woman, oven, woman), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cleaned	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cleaned	nsubj
8	cleaned	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 oven	det
10	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cleaned	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hot	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 hot	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hot	cop
14	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 hot	advmod
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 hot	advmod
16	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 oven	amod
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 before	case
18	before	before	ADV	_	16 hot	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 put	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 put	cc
21	again	again	ADV	_	23 put	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 put	nsubj
23	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cleaned	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 boys	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 boys	det
26	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 put	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sealed	cc
28	sealed	seal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 put	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sealed	obj
30	up	up	ADP	_	28 sealed	compound:prt
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cleaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	night				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	clean	past	the old woman	the oven			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent oven=Patient
3	is	past	the oven			hot, twice property	tree rules
4	put	past	woman		again	in the boys	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in boy=Destination
5	seal up	past	woman not said here	oven			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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 67

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 67