The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 76

Then all four of them began to follow the song, and at last they came to the foot of the sky-reaching pine; but they could see nothing of Kahp-too-óo-yoo, nor could their cries reach him.

Who acts: four, Woman, cries · What happens: begin, follow, come, reach, see, cry · To what, where: song, last, nothing, Kahp

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 (four, Woman, cries), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 began	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 four	det
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 began	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 four	nmod
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 follow	mark
8	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 song	det
10	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 follow	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 came	obl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 foot	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 foot	det
19	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	25 pine	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pine	det
22	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 reaching	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 sky	punct
24	reaching	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 pine	amod
25	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 foot	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 see	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 see	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 see	aux
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	parataxis
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 see	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Kahp	case
33	Kahp	Kahp	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 nothing	nmod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 Kahp	punct
35	too	too	ADV	_	39 yoo	advmod
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 too	punct
37	óo	óo	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 yoo	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 óo	punct
39	yoo	yoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Kahp	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 reach	punct
41	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	45 reach	cc
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 reach	aux
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 cries	nmod:poss
44	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 reach	nsubj
45	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 see	conj
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 reach	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	all four of Woman			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	follow	to-infinitive	all four of Woman not said here	the song				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Theme
3	come	past	Woman		last		to the foot of the reaching pine	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location
4	reach	gerund					sky compound	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see	could	Woman	nothing of Kahp óo yoo				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
6	reach	could	Woman's cries	Kahp				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	cry		Woman					nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 76

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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 76