The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 103

When they had prayed, Sun-Arrow thanked all the animals, one by one; and to the Bluebird, the Bear, and the Badger, he said:

Who acts: animals, Sun, Badger · What happens: pray, thank, say · To what, where: animals · 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 Brave Bobtails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animals, Sun, Badger), 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	4 prayed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 prayed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 prayed	aux
4	prayed	pray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 thanked	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 prayed	punct
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 thanked	nsubj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Arrow	punct
8	Arrow	Arrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Sun	conj
9	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 said	ccomp
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 animals	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 animals	det
12	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thanked	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 animals	appos
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 one	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 one	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 Bluebird	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Bluebird	det
21	Bluebird	bluebird	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Bear	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Bear	det
24	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Bluebird	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Badger	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Badger	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Badger	det
28	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Bluebird	appos
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Bluebird	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 said	nsubj
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	pray	past · perfect	animals = animal			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	thank speech: thank	past	Sun and Arrow	all animals		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Badger		to the Bluebird and the Bear	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to bluebird=Experiencer clause=Topic

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 Brave Bobtails, sentence 103

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 103