The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 98

When Kahp-too-óo-yoo saw, his heart was heavy, and he thought: “But what good will that very little do me, for I am dying of hunger and thirst?”

Who acts: heart, Ant, that · What happens: be, think, do, die · To what, where: Kahp yoo saw, Ant · 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 (heart, Ant, that), 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 saw	advmod
2	Kahp	Kahp	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 saw	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Kahp	punct
4	too	too	ADV	_	6 óo	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 too	punct
6	óo	óo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Kahp	list
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Kahp	punct
8	yoo	yoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	compound
9	saw	saw	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thought	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 heavy	punct
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 heart	nmod:poss
12	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heavy	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 heavy	cop
14	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 saw	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thought	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thought	nsubj
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 good	punct
21	But	but	CCONJ	_	23 good	cc
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 good	nsubj
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thought	ccomp
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 do	aux
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 do	nsubj
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 little	advmod
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 do	advmod
28	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 good	parataxis
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 do	iobj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 dying	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 dying	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 dying	nsubj
33	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 dying	aux
34	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 do	advcl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 hunger	case
36	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dying	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 thirst	cc
38	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hunger	conj
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 good	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ant's heart			heavy property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	Ant	Kahp yoo saw			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do in a quote	future	that		Ant		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality
4	die in a quote	present · progressive	Ant			of hunger and thirst	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer

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 98

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 98