The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 78

When every kind that walks or flies had chosen its strongest one, the chosen stood out; Kéem-ee-deh called them by name to take their turns.

Who acts: kind, Kéem ee deh · What happens: walk, choose, stand out, call, take · To what, where: kind, Kéem ee deh, flies, turns · 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 (kind, Kéem ee deh), 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	SCONJ	_	9 chosen	mark
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 kind	det
3	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chosen	nsubj:pass
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 walks	nsubj
5	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 kind	acl:relcl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 flies	cc
7	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walks	conj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 chosen	aux
9	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 one	nmod:poss
11	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 chosen	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stood	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stood	det
15	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 stood	obl
16	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 one	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 stood	compound:prt
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 deh	punct
19	Kéem	Kéem	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 deh	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 Kéem	punct
21	ee	ee	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 deh	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 ee	punct
23	deh	deh	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	obl
24	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 deh	acl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 called	obj
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 name	case
27	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 called	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 take	mark
29	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 called	advcl
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 turns	nmod:poss
31	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 take	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 chosen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	walk	present	every kind		flies conj	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	choose	past · perfect · passive		every kind	kind's strongest one parataxis	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	choose	participle				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	stand out	past		Kéem ee deh		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	call	participle	Kéem ee deh not said here	flies = fly	by name	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
6	take	to-infinitive	Kéem ee deh not said here	flies's turns		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme

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 78

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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 78