The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 47

For three weeks now, all its people, and all the people along that river, have been working at the spring from which the river comes, but have not been able to undo me.

Who acts: people, river · What happens: work, come, not be, undo · To what, where: me

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 (people, river), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 weeks	case
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 weeks	nummod
3	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 now	obl
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 working	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 now	punct
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 people	det:predet
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 people	nmod:poss
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 working	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 people	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 people	cc
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 people	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 people	det
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 people	nmod
14	along	along	ADP	_	16 river	case
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 river	det
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 people	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 people	punct
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 working	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 working	aux
20	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 spring	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 spring	det
23	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 working	obl
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 comes	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 river	det
27	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 comes	nsubj
28	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 spring	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 able	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 able	cc
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 able	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 able	advmod
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 able	cop
34	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 working	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 undo	mark
36	undo	undo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 able	xcomp
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 undo	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 working	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	work	present · perfect · progressive	nation's people all people along that river		now; spring		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	present	the river		from the spring		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_Location
3	not is	present · perfect	nation's people all people along that river not said here			able property	tree rules
4	undo	to-infinitive	nation's people all people along that river not said here	me			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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 Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 47

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 47