The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 132

As he sang again, the rain fell in the village; and when it touched the pinched faces of the dead they sat up and opened their mouths to catch it.

Who acts: Kahp, rain, ear, rains · What happens: sing, fall, touch, pinch, sit up, open · To what, where: village, pinched faces, mouths, ear

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, rain, ear, rains), 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 sang	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sang	nsubj
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fell	advcl
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 sang	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sang	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rain	det
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 village	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 village	det
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 touched	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 touched	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 touched	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 touched	nsubj
16	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fell	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 faces	det
18	pinched	pinch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 faces	amod
19	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 touched	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 dead	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dead	det
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 faces	nmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sat	nsubj
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 touched	parataxis
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 sat	compound:prt
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 opened	cc
27	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sat	conj
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mouths	nmod:poss
29	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 opened	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 catch	mark
31	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 opened	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 catch	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	Kahp			again	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	fall	past	the rain		the village		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in village=Location
3	touch	past	ear	the pinched faces of the dead			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Co-Theme
4	pinch	participle					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	sit up	past	rains = rain				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	open	past	rains = rain not said here	rains's mouths			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
7	catch	to-infinitive	rains = rain not said here	ear			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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 132

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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 132