The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 12

The people could raise no crops, for the bitter cold killed all that they planted, and nothing would grow but the thorny cactus.

Who acts: people, bitter cold, nothing · What happens: raise, kill, plant, grow · To what, where: crops

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The North Wind and the South Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, bitter cold, nothing), 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 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 raise	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 raise	aux
4	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 crops	det
6	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 raise	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 killed	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 killed	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cold	det
10	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cold	amod
11	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 killed	nsubj
12	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 raise	conj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 planted	det:predet
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 planted	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 planted	nsubj
16	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 killed	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grow	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 grow	cc
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 grow	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 grow	aux
21	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 raise	conj
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 cactus	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cactus	det
24	thorny	thorny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cactus	amod
25	cactus	cactus	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grow	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 raise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	raise	could	the people	no crops		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Theme
2	kill	past	the bitter cold			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	plant	past	people			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	grow	would	nothing		the thorny cactus conj	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 12