The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 48

Then the Spider-woman made an accursed prayer-stick of the feathers of the woodpecker, and spoke to the Ghosts, and said to the girl:

Who acts: Spider woman · What happens: make, accurs, speak, say · To what, where: accursed prayer stick, girl · 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 (Spider woman), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 made	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
3	Spider	Spider	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 woman	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Spider	punct
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stick	det
8	accursed	accurs	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 stick	amod
9	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stick	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 prayer	punct
11	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 feathers	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 feathers	det
14	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stick	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 woodpecker	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woodpecker	det
17	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feathers	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 spoke	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 spoke	cc
20	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 Ghosts	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Ghosts	det
23	Ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 spoke	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 girl	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 girl	det
29	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	obl
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the Spider woman	a accursed prayer stick of the feathers of the woodpecker		then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Product
2	accurs	participle						tree rules
3	speak speech: other	past	the Spider woman not said here				to the Ghosts	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to ghost=Co-Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the Spider woman not said here		the girl			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to girl=Recipient

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 48

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 48