The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 28

Again the unsuccessful friend refused to take a share of Kahp-too-óo-yoo’s deer; and when he had sat long without a word, he said:

Who acts: unsuccessful friend, friend · What happens: refuse, not take, sit, say, share · To what, where: share, Kahp deer · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (unsuccessful friend, friend), 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	_	5 refused	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 friend	det
3	unsuccessful	unsuccessful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 friend	amod
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 refused	nsubj
5	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 said	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 take	mark
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 refused	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 share	det
9	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	19 deer	case
11	Kahp	Kahp	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 deer	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Kahp	punct
13	too	too	ADV	_	17 yoo	advmod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 too	punct
15	óo	óo	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 yoo	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 óo	punct
17	yoo	yoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 deer	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 yoo	case
19	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 share	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 sat	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sat	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 sat	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sat	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sat	aux
25	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 refused	conj
26	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 sat	advmod
27	without	without	ADP	_	29 word	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 word	det
29	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sat	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 refused	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 said	nsubj
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	the unsuccessful friend		again		vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not take	to-infinitive	the unsuccessful friend not said here	a share of óo yoo's Kahp deer			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme
3	sit	past · perfect	friend			without a word; long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	friend				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	share			óo yoo's Kahp deer			nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient

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 28

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 28