The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 123

As he walked and sang, the forgotten clouds came over him, and the soft rain began to fall, and all was green and good.

Who acts: Kahp, forgotten clouds, soft rain, all · What happens: walk, sing, forget, come, begin, fall

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, forgotten clouds, soft rain, all), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 walked	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	advcl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sang	cc
5	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 clouds	det
8	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 clouds	amod
9	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	over	over	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 began	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rain	det
16	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rain	amod
17	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 began	nsubj
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 fall	mark
20	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 green	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 green	cc
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 green	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 green	cop
25	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 came	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 good	cc
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 green	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	walk	past	Kahp		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express	past	Kahp not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	forget	participle			tree rules
4	come	past	the forgotten clouds	over Kahp	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over he=Initial_Location
5	begin	past	the soft rain		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	fall	to-infinitive	the soft rain not said here		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	all	green property	tree rules
8	be		all not said here		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 123

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 123