The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 48

[mama],” they cried, and, pulling the meat from the fire, they laid it gently away and sobbed themselves to sleep.

Who acts: mama, Wolf · What happens: cry, pull, lay away, sob, sleep · To what, where: meat, fire, Wolf

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Revenge of the Fawns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mama, Wolf), 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	_	2 mama	punct
2	mama	mama	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 mama	punct
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mama	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 mama	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pulling	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pulling	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pulling	punct
11	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cried	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 meat	det
13	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pulling	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 fire	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fire	det
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pulling	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 laid	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 laid	nsubj
19	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 laid	obj
21	gently	gently	ADV	_	19 laid	advmod
22	away	away	ADV	_	19 laid	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sobbed	cc
24	sobbed	sob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	conj
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 sobbed	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 sleep	mark
27	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sobbed	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	mama			Wolf nsubj	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pull in a quote	gerund	mama not said here	the meat	the fire		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent meat=Theme from fire=Initial_Location
3	lay away in a quote	past	Wolf	meat		away, gently property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result
4	sob in a quote	past	mama not said here	Wolf			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
5	sleep in a quote	to-infinitive	mama not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 48

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 48