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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 41

Now it happened that this house was the place where all the devils of that country used to meet at night; and before Good went to sleep he heard noises of the devils coming.

Who acts: it, house, devils, Good · What happens: happen, be, use, meet, go, hear · To what, where: place, sleep, noises

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, house, devils, Good), 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

advmodnsubjmarkdetnsubjcopdetadvcladvmoddet:predetdetnsubjcasedetnmodacl:relclmarkxcompcaseoblpunctccmarknsubjconjcaseoblnsubjacl:relclobjcasedetnmodaclpunctrootNowADVitPRONhappenedVERBthatSCONJthisDEThouseNOUNwasAUXtheDETplaceNOUNwhereADVallDETtheDETdevilsNOUNofADPthatDETcountryNOUNusedVERBtoPARTmeetVERBatADPnightNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJbeforeSCONJGoodPROPNwentVERBtoADPsleepNOUNhePRONheardVERBnoisesNOUNofADPtheDETdevilsNOUNcomingVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem3 happenedadvmod
2ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 happenednsubj
3happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thatthatSCONJ_9 placemark
5thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem6 housedet
6househouseNOUNNumber=Sing9 placensubj
7wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 placecop
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 placedet
9placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing3 happenedadvcl
10wherewhereADVPronType=Rel17 usedadvmod
11allallDETPronType=Tot13 devilsdet:predet
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 devilsdet
13devilsdevilNOUNNumber=Plur17 usednsubj
14ofofADP_16 countrycase
15thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem16 countrydet
16countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing13 devilsnmod
17useduseVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 placeacl:relcl
18totoPART_19 meetmark
19meetmeetVERBVerbForm=Inf17 usedxcomp
20atatADP_21 nightcase
21nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing19 meetobl
22;;PUNCT_26 wentpunct
23andandCCONJ_26 wentcc
24beforebeforeSCONJ_26 wentmark
25GoodGoodPROPNNumber=Sing26 wentnsubj
26wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 happenedconj
27totoADP_28 sleepcase
28sleepsleepNOUNNumber=Sing26 wentobl
29hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 heardnsubj
30heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 sleepacl:relcl
31noisesnoiseNOUNNumber=Plur30 heardobj
32ofofADP_34 devilscase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 devilsdet
34devilsdevilNOUNNumber=Plur31 noisesnmod
35comingcomeVERBVerbForm=Ger34 devilsacl
36..PUNCT_3 happenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1happenpastitnowvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2is apastthis housethe placetree rules
3usepastall devils of that countryvn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4meetto-infinitiveall devils of that country not said herenightvn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5gopastGoodsleepvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location
6hearpastGoodnoises of the devilsvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
7comegerundthe devils not said herevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8noisethe devilsnom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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