The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 91

While he ate, she told him how sad was all the village; for the girl who had been so kind to all was dying.

Who acts: half, woman, girl · What happens: eat, tell, be, die · To what, where: half, sad village · 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 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 (half, woman, girl), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	3 ate	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 sad	advmod
9	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 village	amod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 village	cop
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 village	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 village	det
13	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 girl	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 girl	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 girl	det
17	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	conj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 kind	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 kind	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 kind	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 kind	advmod
22	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 girl	acl:relcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 all	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 kind	obl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 dying	aux
26	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 all	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past	half				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	woman		half	the girl conj	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is a	past		all sad village			tree rules
4	is	past · perfect	the girl			to all; kind property	tree rules
5	die	past · progressive					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 91

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 91