The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 13

To keep from starving, they had to eat the cactus-leaves, roasting them first to remove the sharp thorns.

Who acts: people · What happens: keep, starve, have, eat, roast, remove · To what, where: cactus leaves, people, sharp thorns

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), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	SCONJ	_	4 starving	mark
4	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 had	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 starving	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 keep	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 eat	mark
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 leaves	det
11	cactus	cactus	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leaves	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 cactus	punct
13	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eat	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 roasting	punct
15	roasting	roast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 eat	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 roasting	obj
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 roasting	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 remove	mark
19	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 roasting	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 thorns	det
21	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thorns	amod
22	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 remove	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive				tree rules
2	starve	gerund	people not said here			tree rules
3	have	past	people			tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive	people not said here	the cactus leaves		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
5	roast	gerund	people not said here	people	first property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	remove	to-infinitive	people not said here	the sharp thorns		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thorn=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 13

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 13