The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 28

But Mí-o-chin built a fire and heated small stones in it, and with them caused a warm South Wind, which melted the ice.

Who acts: Mí, warm South Wind · What happens: build, heat, cause, melt · To what, where: fire, small stones, warm South Wind, ice

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, warm South Wind), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 built	cc
2	Mí	Mí	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 built	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 chin	punct
4	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	6 chin	case
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 o	punct
6	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Mí	appos
7	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 heated	cc
11	heated	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 built	conj
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stones	amod
13	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heated	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heated	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 caused	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 caused	cc
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 caused	obl
20	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 built	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 Wind	det
22	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Wind	amod
23	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Wind	compound
24	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 caused	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 melted	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 melted	nsubj
27	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 Wind	acl:relcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ice	det
29	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 melted	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	build	past	Mí	a fire		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
2	heat	past	Mí not said here	small stones	in chin	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stone=Patient in it=Instrument
3	cause	past	Mí not said here	a warm South Wind	with stones = stone	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition wind=Patient
4	melt	past	a warm South Wind	the ice		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient ice=Result

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 28

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 28