The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 111

Again the Little Black Ants pushed mightily against the sky, and the Big Red Ants pulled mightily from below; and the pine was driven another fourth of its length into the earth.

Who acts: Black Ants, Big Red Ants · What happens: push, pull, drive · To what, where: pine, earth

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Black Ants, Big Red Ants), 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	Again	again	ADV	_	6 pushed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Ants	det
3	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Black	amod
4	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Ants	compound
5	Ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pushed	nsubj
6	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	mightily	mightily	ADV	_	6 pushed	advmod
8	against	against	ADP	_	10 sky	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sky	det
10	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pushed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pulled	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pulled	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Ants	det
14	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Ants	flat
15	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Ants	compound
16	Ants	Ant	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 pulled	nsubj
17	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pushed	conj
18	mightily	mightily	ADV	_	17 pulled	advmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 below	case
20	below	below	ADV	_	17 pulled	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 driven	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 driven	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pine	det
24	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 driven	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 driven	aux:pass
26	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 pushed	parataxis
27	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	28 fourth	det
28	fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 driven	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 length	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 length	nmod:poss
31	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fourth	nmod
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 earth	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 earth	det
34	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 driven	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	past	the Black Ants			again	against the sky; mightily property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against sky=Theme
2	pull	past	the Big Red Ants				mightily property	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from below=Co-Patient
3	drive	past · passive		the pine	the earth		another fourth of pine's length obj	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme fourth=Destination

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 Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 111

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 111