The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 24

Mí-o-chin accepted the challenge, and it was agreed that the contest should begin on the morrow and last three days.

Who acts: Mí, contest · What happens: accept, agree, begin · To what, where: challenge, morrow

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 (Mí, contest), 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	Mí	Mí	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 accepted	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 chin	punct
3	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	5 chin	case
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 o	punct
5	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mí	appos
6	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 challenge	det
8	challenge	challenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 accepted	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 agreed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 agreed	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 agreed	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 agreed	aux:pass
13	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 accepted	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 begin	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 contest	det
16	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 begin	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 begin	aux
18	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 agreed	xcomp
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 morrow	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 morrow	det
21	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 begin	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 days	cc
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 days	amod
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 days	nummod
25	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 morrow	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 accepted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	accept	past	Mí	the challenge		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme
2	agree speech: agree	past · passive		challenge		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic
3	begin not said to happen	should	the contest		the morrow and last three days	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 24

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 24