The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 15

The sisters, finding that he would not notice their shy smiles, began to make it in their way to pass his house whenever they came to Isleta, and to say _hin-a-kú-pui-yoo_ (good morning) as they met him on the road.

Who acts: sisters, Poo, hin · What happens: find, not notice, begin, make, pass, come · To what, where: shy smiles, game, way, house, Isleta, Poo · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Town of the Snake-girls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, Poo, hin), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sisters	det
2	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 began	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 finding	punct
4	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 sisters	conj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 notice	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 notice	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 notice	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 notice	advmod
9	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 finding	advcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 smiles	nmod:poss
11	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 smiles	amod
12	smiles	smile	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 notice	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sisters	punct
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 make	mark
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 make	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 way	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 way	nmod:poss
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 pass	mark
22	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 make	advcl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 house	nmod:poss
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pass	obj
25	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 came	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 pass	advcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 Isleta	case
29	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 met	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 met	cc
32	to	to	PART	_	33 say	mark
33	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 met	advcl
34	_	_	PUNCT	_	43 yoo	punct
35	hin	hin	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 yoo	nsubj
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 yoo	punct
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 yoo	det
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 a	punct
39	kú	kú	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 yoo	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 kú	punct
41	pui	pui	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 yoo	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 yoo	punct
43	yoo	yoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 say	obj
44	_	_	PUNCT	_	43 yoo	punct
45	(	(	PUNCT	_	47 morning	punct
46	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 morning	amod
47	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 yoo	appos
48	)	)	PUNCT	_	47 morning	punct
49	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 met	mark
50	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 met	nsubj
51	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 began	conj
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 met	obj
53	on	on	ADP	_	55 road	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 road	det
55	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 met	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	gerund	the sisters not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	not notice	would	Poo	sisters's shy smiles			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer smile=Stimulus
3	begin	past	the sisters				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	make	to-infinitive	the sisters not said here	game	sisters's way		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
5	pass	to-infinitive	the sisters not said here	Poo's house			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory
6	come	past	sisters = sister		Isleta	whenever property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to isleta=Initial_Location
7	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	sisters = sister not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	yoo		hin				tree rules
9	meet	past	sisters = sister	Poo	the road		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
10	smile		sisters = sister				nom smile «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 15

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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 15