The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 151

All began to roast corn and to eat; and the dead in the houses awoke and were strong again, and all the Village sang and danced.

Who acts: Village · What happens: begin, roast, eat, awake, be, sing · To what, where: corn

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 (Village), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 began	advmod
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 roast	mark
4	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roast	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 eat	cc
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 roast	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 awoke	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 awoke	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dead	det
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 awoke	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 houses	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 houses	det
15	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dead	obl
16	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 strong	cc
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 strong	cop
19	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 awoke	xcomp
20	again	again	ADV	_	19 strong	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sang	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sang	cc
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 sang	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Village	det
25	Village	Village	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 sang	nsubj
26	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 danced	cc
28	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sang	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	roast	to-infinitive		corn			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent corn=Patient
3	eat	to-infinitive					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	awake	past					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past			again	strong property	tree rules
6	sing speech: express	past	the Village				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
7	dance	past	the Village not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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 151

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 151