The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 68

Young-Man-Who-Embraces-a-Corncob laid upon their ugly, flat heads a pinch of the sacred meal, and they ran out their tongues and licked it.

Who acts: Young Man, Embraces · What happens: lay, run out, lick, pinch · To what, where: ugly flat heads, tongues, hoop, sacred meal

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 (Young Man, Embraces), 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	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Man	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Young	punct
3	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 laid	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 laid	punct
5	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 laid	nsubj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Embraces	punct
7	Embraces	embrace	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 laid	nsubj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Corncob	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Corncob	det
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 a	punct
11	Corncob	corncob	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Embraces	conj
12	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 heads	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 heads	nmod:poss
15	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 heads	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ugly	punct
17	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 heads	amod
18	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 laid	obl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 pinch	det
20	pinch	pinch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heads	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 meal	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 meal	det
23	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 meal	amod
24	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pinch	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ran	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 ran	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ran	nsubj
28	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 laid	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 ran	compound:prt
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 tongues	nmod:poss
31	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 ran	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 licked	cc
33	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 laid	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 licked	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	Young Man		Embraces's ugly flat heads and a pinch of the sacred meal	Who nsubj; Embraces and a Corncob nsubj	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon head=Destination
2	run out	past	Embraces = embrace	Embraces's tongues			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tongue=Trajectory
3	lick	past	Young Man not said here	hoop			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	pinch			the sacred meal			nom pinch «state transitive»: of=patient

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 68

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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 68