The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 21

But Pee-oo-ée-deh called a _junta_ of all his tribe, and told them how it was, and the way he thought to win the race.

Who acts: ée deh, tribe, oo · What happens: call, tell, be, think, win · To what, where: junta, deh, way, race, ée deh · 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 Race of the Tails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ée deh, tribe, oo), 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	_	8 deh	cc
2	Pee	pee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 oo	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Pee	punct
4	oo	oo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deh	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 oo	punct
6	ée	ée	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deh	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 deh	punct
8	deh	deh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 deh	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 junta	det
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 junta	punct
12	junta	junta	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	xcomp
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 deh	punct
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 tribe	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 tribe	det:predet
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tribe	nmod:poss
17	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 _	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 told	cc
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tribe	acl:relcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	iobj
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 way	advmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 way	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 way	cop
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 way	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 way	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 way	det
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 told	ccomp
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 thought	nsubj
30	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 way	acl:relcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 win	mark
32	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 thought	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 race	det
34	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 win	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 deh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	call	participle	ée deh Pee oo not said here	a junta		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	oo's tribe not said here		deh	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	is a	past	tribe	the way		tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	oo	the way not said here		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent way=Attribute clause=Theme
5	win	to-infinitive	oo not said here	the race		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality

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 Race of the Tails, sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 21