The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 58

When they saw him so, they were very sad; and Eé-eh-chah took his hand, and the Grandmother took his other, and all the people helped them.

Who acts: people, Eé eh chah, Grandmother · What happens: see, be, take, help · To what, where: man, hand, other, P’ah

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 (people, Eé eh chah, Grandmother), 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	3 saw	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sad	advcl
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	3 saw	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sad	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sad	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 sad	advmod
10	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 took	cc
13	Eé	Eé	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 chah	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Eé	punct
15	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chah	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 eh	punct
17	chah	chah	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	nsubj
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sad	parataxis
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hand	nmod:poss
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 took	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Grandmother	det
24	Grandmother	Grandmother	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 took	nsubj
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	conj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 other	nmod:poss
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 took	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 helped	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 helped	cc
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 people	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 people	det
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 helped	nsubj
33	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 took	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 helped	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	people	man		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	is	past	people		sad property	tree rules
3	take	past	Eé eh chah	man's hand		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
4	take	past	the Grandmother	man's other		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme
5	help	past	all people	P’ah = p'ah		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary

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 58

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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 58