The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 14

One day, when the _kot-chin-á-ka_ was roasting cactus-leaves, there came another handsome stranger with a sunny smile and stood beside her.

Who acts: chin á, handsome stranger · What happens: roast, come, stand · To what, where: cactus leaves

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 (chin á, handsome stranger), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 roasting	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 á	det
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 chin	punct
7	kot	kot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chin	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 kot	punct
9	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 á	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 chin	punct
11	á	á	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 roasting	nsubj
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 ka	punct
13	ka	ka	X	Foreign=Yes	11 á	appos
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 ka	punct
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 roasting	aux
16	roasting	roast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 day	acl
17	cactus	cactus	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 leaves	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 cactus	punct
19	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 roasting	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 came	expl
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 stranger	det
24	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stranger	amod
25	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 smile	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 smile	det
28	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 smile	amod
29	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stranger	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stood	cc
31	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 came	conj
32	beside	beside	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stood	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	past · progressive	the chin á	cactus leaves				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
2	come	past	another handsome stranger with a sunny smile		there	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stand	past	another handsome stranger with a sunny smile not said here				beside stranger	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location

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 14

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 14