The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 25

Mí-o-chin went to consult an old Spider-woman as to the best way to conquer his powerful rival, and she gave him the necessary advice.

Who acts: Mí, woman · What happens: go, consult, conquer, give · To what, where: old Spider woman, powerful rival, necessary advice, Mí

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, woman), 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 went	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	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 consult	mark
8	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 went	xcomp
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
11	Spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 woman	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Spider	punct
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 consult	obj
14	as	as	ADP	_	18 way	case
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 way	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 way	det
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 way	amod
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 consult	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 conquer	mark
20	conquer	conquer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 way	acl
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 rival	nmod:poss
22	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 rival	amod
23	rival	rival	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 conquer	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gave	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gave	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gave	nsubj
27	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gave	iobj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 advice	det
30	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 advice	amod
31	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gave	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	Mí				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	consult	to-infinitive	Mí not said here	a old Spider woman		as the best way	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent woman=Theme as way=Value
3	conquer	to-infinitive	Mí not said here	Mí's powerful rival			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rival=Patient
4	give	past	woman	the necessary advice	Mí		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient advice=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 25

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 25