The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 55

And then perished all that is green; the animals fell in the brown fields; and the gaunt people who sat to warm themselves in the sun began to die there where they sat. At last the poor old man said to his daughters:

Who acts: that, animals, gaunt people, poor old man · What happens: perish, be, fall, sit, warm, begin · To what, where: brown fields, animals, sun, daughters · 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 (that, animals, gaunt people, poor old man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 perished	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 perished	advmod
3	perished	perish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 that	det:predet
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 green	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 green	cop
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 perished	ccomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 fell	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 animals	det
10	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fell	nsubj
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 perished	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 fields	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fields	det
14	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fields	amod
15	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fell	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 began	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 began	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 people	det
19	gaunt	gaunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 people	amod
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 began	nsubj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 sat	nsubj
22	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 people	acl:relcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 warm	mark
24	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sat	xcomp
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 warm	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 sun	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sun	det
28	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 warm	obl
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 perished	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 die	mark
31	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 die	advmod
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 die	advmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 sat.	nsubj
35	sat.	Saturday	PROPN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	33 where	nsubj
36	At	at	ADP	_	37 last	case
37	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 sat.	amod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 man	det
39	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 man	amod
40	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 man	amod
41	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 said	nsubj
42	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 last	parataxis
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 daughters	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 daughters	nmod:poss
45	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 said	obl
46	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 perished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perish	past					then		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	that					green property	tree rules
3	fall	past	the animals			the brown fields			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in field=Location
4	sit	past	the gaunt people						tree rules
5	warm	to-infinitive	the gaunt people not said here	animals = animal		the sun			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
6	begin	past	the gaunt people						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	die	to-infinitive	the gaunt people not said here			there			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	say speech: assert	past	the poor old man		Man's daughters				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient

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 55

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Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 55