The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 55

If a man took a long stick, shaped like a sword, and went and stood on top of the stone, and struck it with the full length of the stick first east and west, and then north and south, the water would come out so hard that the stone would be thrown out upon the banks and the spring could never be stopped again.”

Who acts: man, water · What happens: take, shape, go, stand, strike, come out · To what, where: long stick, top, stick, stone, banks

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 (man, water), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 took	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stick	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stick	amod
7	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shaped	punct
9	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stick	acl
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 sword	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sword	det
12	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shaped	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stood	cc
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 went	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 top	case
19	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 stone	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 stone	det
22	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 top	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 struck	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 struck	cc
25	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 struck	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 length	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 length	det
29	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 length	amod
30	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 struck	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 stick	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 stick	det
33	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 length	nmod
34	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	35 east	advmod
35	east	east	ADV	_	25 struck	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 west	cc
37	west	west	ADV	_	35 east	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 come	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 come	cc
40	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 north	advmod
41	north	north	ADV	_	48 come	advmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 south	cc
43	south	south	ADV	_	41 north	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 north	punct
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 water	det
46	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 come	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 come	aux
48	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 took	parataxis
49	out	out	ADV	_	48 come	advmod
50	so	so	ADV	_	51 hard	advmod
51	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	48 come	advmod
52	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 thrown	mark
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 stone	det
54	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 thrown	nsubj:pass
55	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 thrown	aux
56	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	57 thrown	aux:pass
57	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 come	advcl
58	out	out	ADP	_	57 thrown	compound:prt
59	upon	upon	ADP	_	61 banks	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 banks	det
61	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 thrown	obl
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 stopped	cc
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 spring	det
64	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 stopped	obl:unmarked
65	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	68 stopped	aux
66	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	68 stopped	advmod
67	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	68 stopped	aux:pass
68	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 thrown	conj
69	again	again	ADV	_	68 stopped	advmod
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 come	punct
71	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	a man	a long stick				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
2	shape	participle		a long stick not said here			like a sword	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	go	past	a man not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stand	past	a man not said here		top of the stone			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location
5	strike	past	a man not said here	stick			with the full length of the stick; east property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with length=Instrument
6	come out	would	the water			then	hard, north, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
7	throw out	would · passive		the stone	the banks			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme upon bank=Destination
8	not stop	could · passive				again; spring		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»

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 55

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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 55