The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 67

Then the thirsty fields no longer cry for water, the irrigating-ditches have ceased to gnaw at their banks, and the men are often at leisure.

Who acts: thirsty fields, men · What happens: cry, irrigate, cease, gnaw, be · To what, where: irrigating ditches, leisure

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thirsty fields, men), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 cry	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fields	det
3	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fields	amod
4	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cry	nsubj
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 longer	advmod
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 cry	advmod
7	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 water	case
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cry	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ceased	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ditches	det
12	irrigating	irrigate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 ditches	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 irrigating	punct
14	ditches	ditch	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ceased	nsubj:pass
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 ceased	aux
16	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 cry	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 gnaw	mark
18	gnaw	gnaw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 ceased	xcomp
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 banks	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 banks	nmod:poss
21	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 gnaw	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 leisure	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 leisure	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 men	det
25	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 leisure	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 leisure	cop
27	often	often	ADV	_	29 leisure	advmod
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 leisure	case
29	leisure	leisure	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ceased	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	infinitive	the thirsty fields			then	for water; long property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for water=Recipient
2	irrigate	gerund						tree rules
3	cease	present · perfect · passive		the irrigating ditches				tree rules
4	gnaw	to-infinitive					at ditches's banks	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at bank=Patient
5	is	present	the men		leisure		often property	tree rules

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 Brown Story-tellers, sentence 67

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 67