The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 4

When Kahp-too-óo-yoo willed it, the glad rains fell, and made the dry fields laugh in green; and without him no one could bring water from the sky.

Who acts: Kahp, glad rains, dry fields, one · What happens: will, fall, make, laugh, bring · To what, where: yoo, water, sky

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, glad rains, dry fields, one), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 willed	advmod
2	Kahp	Kahp	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 willed	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	2 Kahp	list
9	willed	will	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fell	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 willed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 willed	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rains	det
13	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rains	amod
14	rains	rain	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fell	nsubj
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fell	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fields	det
20	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fields	amod
21	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 laugh	nsubj
22	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 made	ccomp
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 green	case
24	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 laugh	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 bring	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bring	cc
27	without	without	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bring	obl
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 one	det
30	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bring	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 bring	aux
32	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 fell	conj
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bring	obj
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 sky	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sky	det
36	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bring	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	will	past	Kahp óo yoo	yoo			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	fall	past	the glad rains				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	past	the glad rains not said here				tree rules
4	laugh	present	the dry fields			in green	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in green=Theme
5	bring	could	no one	water	the sky	without Kahp	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from sky=Initial_Location

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 4

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 4