The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 73

The boys agreed,[53] and secretly prayed to the Trues to help them--for by this time they knew that the old man and the old woman “had the bad road.”

Who acts: boys, old man · What happens: agree, pray, help, know, have · To what, where: 53, boys, bad road · 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 (boys, old man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boys	det
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 agreed	nsubj
3	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 53	punct
5	[	[	PUNCT	_	6 53	punct
6	53	53	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 agreed	obl
7	]	]	PUNCT	_	6 53	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 prayed	cc
9	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	10 prayed	advmod
10	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 agreed	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 Trues	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Trues	det
13	Trues	true	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 prayed	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 help	mark
15	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 prayed	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 help	obj
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 knew	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 time	case
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 time	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 time	det
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 knew	obl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 knew	nsubj
23	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 prayed	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 had	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 man	det
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 woman	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 woman	det
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 woman	amod
31	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 man	conj
32	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 knew	ccomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 road	det
35	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 road	amod
36	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 agreed	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	the boys	53			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pray	past	the boys not said here			to the Trues; secretly property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	help	to-infinitive	the boys not said here	boys = boy			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
4	know	past	boys = boy		time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	have in a quote	past	the old man and the old woman	the bad road			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=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 73

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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 73