The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 70

Trembling, they listened; and again the song came floating to them, so soft, so sad that they wept--as to this day their people weep when a white-haired old man, filled with the memories of Kahp-too-óo-yoo, sings that plaintive melody.

Who acts: brothers, song, people, white haired old man · What happens: tremble, listen, come, float, weep, fill · To what, where: brothers, white haired old man, plaintive melody

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 (brothers, song, people, white haired 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	Trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 listened	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Trembling	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 listened	nsubj
4	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
7	again	again	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 song	det
9	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 listened	parataxis
11	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 came	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 floating	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 soft	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 soft	advmod
16	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 came	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sad	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 sad	advmod
19	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 soft	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 wept	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wept	nsubj
22	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sad	advcl
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 weep	punct
24	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	27 day	case
25	to	to	ADP	_	24 as	fixed
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 weep	obl
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 people	nmod:poss
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 weep	nsubj
30	weep	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
31	when	when	SCONJ	_	52 sings	mark
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 man	det
33	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 man	amod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 white	punct
35	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 man	amod
36	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 man	amod
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 sings	nsubj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 filled	punct
39	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 man	acl
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 memories	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 memories	det
42	memories	memory	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 filled	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 Kahp	case
44	Kahp	Kahp	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 memories	nmod
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 Kahp	punct
46	too	too	ADV	_	50 yoo	advmod
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 too	punct
48	óo	óo	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 yoo	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 óo	punct
50	yoo	yoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 Kahp	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 man	punct
52	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 weep	advcl
53	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	55 melody	det
54	plaintive	plaintive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 melody	amod
55	melody	melody	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 sings	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tremble	gerund	brothers = brother not said here					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	listen	past	brothers = brother					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	the song			again		tree rules
4	float	gerund	the song not said here		brothers = brother			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to they=Destination
5	weep	past	brothers = brother					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	weep	present	brothers's people			day		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	fill	participle		a white haired old man not said here			with the memories of Kahp óo yoo	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with memory=Instrument
8	sing speech: express	present	a white haired old man	that plaintive melody				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location melody=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 70

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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 70