The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 79

Over in a corner are strange earthen jars of water, with little gourd dippers floating, and here and there upon the wall hang bows and arrows in sheaths of the tawny hide of the mountain lion; queer woven belts of red and green, and heavy necklaces of silver and coral, with charms of turquoise--the stone that stole its color from the sky.

Who acts: corner, gourd dippers, stone · What happens: be, float, hang, weave, steal · To what, where: strange earthen jars, bows, sheaths, color, sky

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 (corner, gourd dippers, stone), 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	Over	over	ADV	_	4 corner	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 corner	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 corner	det
4	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jars	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 jars	cop
6	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 jars	amod
7	earthen	earthen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 jars	amod
8	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 water	case
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jars	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dippers	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 dippers	case
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 gourd	amod
14	gourd	gourd	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dippers	compound
15	dippers	dipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 jars	conj
16	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 dippers	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 here	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 here	cc
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 floating	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 there	cc
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 here	conj
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 wall	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wall	det
24	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 here	obl
25	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 floating	xcomp
26	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hang	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 arrows	cc
28	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bows	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 sheaths	case
30	sheaths	sheath	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hang	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 hide	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 hide	det
33	tawny	tawny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 hide	amod
34	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sheaths	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 lion	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 lion	det
37	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lion	compound
38	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hide	nmod
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 belts	punct
40	queer	queer	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 belts	compound
41	woven	weave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 belts	amod
42	belts	belt	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dippers	conj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 red	case
44	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 belts	nmod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 green	cc
46	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 red	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 necklaces	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 necklaces	cc
49	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 necklaces	amod
50	necklaces	necklace	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 belts	conj
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 silver	case
52	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 necklaces	nmod
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 coral	cc
54	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 silver	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 charms	punct
56	with	with	ADP	_	57 charms	case
57	charms	charm	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 belts	conj
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 turquoise	case
59	turquoise	turquoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 charms	nmod
60	--	--	PUNCT	_	62 stone	punct
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 stone	det
62	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 belts	conj
63	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	64 stole	nsubj
64	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 stone	acl:relcl
65	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 color	nmod:poss
66	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 stole	obj
67	from	from	ADP	_	69 sky	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 sky	det
69	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 stole	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 jars	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a corner	strange earthen jars and gourd dippers and queer woven belts of red and heavy necklaces of silver and coral and charms of turquoise and the stone		of water; gourd dippers and queer woven belts of red and heavy necklaces of silver and coral and charms of turquoise and the stone conj	tree rules
2	float	gerund	gourd dippers and queer woven belts of red and heavy necklaces of silver and coral and charms of turquoise and the stone not said here		here; there		tree rules
3	hang	infinitive	gourd dippers and queer woven belts of red and heavy necklaces of silver and coral and charms of turquoise and the stone not said here	bows and arrows	sheaths of the tawny hide of the mountain lion		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bow=Theme in sheath=Destination
4	weave	participle					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	steal	past	the stone	corner's color	the sky		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent color=Theme from sky=Source

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 tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 79