The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 79

“Kóo-ah-raí-deh!” he called; and the Bluebird of the mountains came to Sun-Arrow, who was now swallowed up to his armpits.

Who acts: Kóo, Bluebird · What happens: deh, call, come, swallow up · To what, where: Sun · 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 (Kóo, Bluebird), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 deh	punct
2	Kóo	Kóo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 deh	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Kóo	punct
4	ah	ah	INTJ	_	8 deh	discourse
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 ah	punct
6	raí	raí	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deh	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 raí	punct
8	deh	deh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 called	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 deh	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 deh	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 called	nsubj
12	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Bluebird	det
16	Bluebird	Bluebird	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 mountains	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mountains	det
19	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 Bluebird	nmod
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 called	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 Sun	case
22	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Arrow	punct
24	Arrow	Arrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Sun	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 swallowed	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 swallowed	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 swallowed	aux:pass
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 swallowed	advmod
29	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 Sun	acl:relcl
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 swallowed	compound:prt
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 armpits	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 armpits	nmod:poss
33	armpits	armpit	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 swallowed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deh in a quote		Kóo					tree rules
2	call speech: express	past	Kóo					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	the Bluebird of the mountains		Sun and Arrow			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sun=Initial_Location
4	swallow up	past · passive		Sun and Arrow		now	to deh's armpits	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 79

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 79