The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 45

When you come to the ladder, you must chew some of the herbs and spit the juice on the ladder, which will at once become smooth for you.”

Who acts: you, ladder · What happens: come, chew, spit, become · To what, where: ladder, some, juice

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ladder), 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 come	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 chew	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 ladder	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ladder	det
6	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 chew	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 chew	aux
10	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 chew	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 herbs	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 herbs	det
14	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 some	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 spit	cc
16	spit	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 chew	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 juice	det
18	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spit	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 ladder	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ladder	det
21	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spit	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 become	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 become	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 become	aux
25	at	at	SCONJ	_	27 become	mark
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 become	advmod
27	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 ladder	acl:relcl
28	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 become	xcomp
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 you	case
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 smooth	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 chew	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 chew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	you		the ladder		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ladder=Initial_Location
2	chew	must	you	some of the herbs			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
3	spit	present	you not said here	the juice	the ladder		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent juice=Theme on ladder=Destination
4	become	future	the ladder			once, smooth property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 45

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 45