The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 103

Then the two brothers repeated their words again, and at the third saying the thunder began to roar outside, and all could hear plainly the singing and the _guajes_ of the Trues.

Who acts: two brothers, third, all, gods · What happens: repeat, say, begin, roar, hear, word · To what, where: words, thunder, singing · 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 Drowning of Pecos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two brothers, third, all, gods), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 repeated	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 brothers	nummod
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 repeated	nsubj
5	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 words	nmod:poss
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 repeated	obj
8	again	again	ADV	_	5 repeated	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 third	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 third	det
13	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 began	nsubj
14	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 third	acl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thunder	det
16	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saying	obj
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 repeated	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 roar	mark
19	roar	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	outside	outside	ADV	_	19 roar	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hear	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hear	cc
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 hear	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 hear	aux
25	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 repeated	parataxis
26	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	28 singing	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 singing	det
28	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hear	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 guajes	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 guajes	det
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	32 guajes	punct
32	guajes	guaje	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 singing	conj
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 hear	punct
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 Trues	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Trues	det
36	Trues	true	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 _	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	past	the two brothers	gods's words	then; again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the third not said here	the thunder			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thunder=Topic
3	begin	past	the third				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	roar	to-infinitive	the third not said here			outside property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hear	could	all	the singing and the guajes		the Trues obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer singing=Stimulus
6	word		gods = god				nom word «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 Drowning of Pecos, sentence 103

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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 103