The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 40

So he climbed the pine-tree, and sat astride the limb as upon a horse, and rode, reaching over to the ground as if to pick up the chicken.

Who acts: rest · What happens: climb, sit, reach over, pick up · To what, where: pine tree, limb, chicken

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 (rest), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 climbed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 climbed	nsubj
3	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
5	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 pine	punct
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climbed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 climbed	conj
11	astride	astride	ADP	_	13 limb	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 limb	det
13	limb	limb	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
14	as	as	ADV	_	10 sat	advmod
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 horse	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 horse	det
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rode	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rode	cc
20	rode	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climbed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 reaching	punct
22	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 climbed	advcl
23	over	over	ADV	_	22 reaching	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 ground	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reaching	obl
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 pick	mark
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 pick	mark
29	to	to	PART	_	30 pick	mark
30	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 reaching	advcl
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 pick	compound:prt
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 chicken	det
33	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pick	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	climb	past	rest	the pine tree		rode obl	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
2	sit	past	rest not said here		the limb	upon a horse	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent astride limb=Location
3	reach over	gerund	rest not said here			to the ground; over property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pick up	to-infinitive	rest not said here	the chicken			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Topic

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 40

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 40