The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 116

Now Kahp-too-óo-yoo could see, far below, the parched fields strewn with dead animals, and his own village full of dying people.

Who acts: Kahp, óo yoo · What happens: yoo, see, parch, die · To what, where: people

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 (Kahp, óo yoo), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 yoo	advmod
2	Kahp	Kahp	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 yoo	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Kahp	punct
4	too	too	ADV	_	8 yoo	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 too	punct
6	óo	óo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yoo	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 óo	punct
8	yoo	yoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 far	punct
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 below	advmod
13	below	below	ADV	_	10 see	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 strewn	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fields	det
16	parched	parch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 fields	amod
17	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 strewn	nsubj
18	strewn	strewn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 see	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 animals	case
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 animals	amod
21	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 strewn	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 village	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 village	cc
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 village	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 village	amod
26	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 strewn	parataxis
27	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 village	amod
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 dying	mark
29	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 full	advcl
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 dying	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	yoo		Kahp		now		tree rules
2	see	could	óo yoo			below property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	parch	participle					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	die	gerund	óo yoo not said here	people			tree rules

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 116

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 116