The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 55

Then, shutting the Cubs into the room, they plastered up the door and windows with mud, and laid a flat rock on top of the chimney and sealed it around with mud; and climbing down from the roof, they took each other’s hands and ran away to the south as fast as ever they could.

Who acts: cubs · What happens: shut, plaster up, lay, seal around, climb down, take · To what, where: Cubs, room, door, flat rock, top, rock

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 (cubs), 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	3 shutting	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 shutting	punct
3	shutting	shut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 plastered	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Cubs	det
5	Cubs	Cub	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 shutting	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 room	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 room	det
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shutting	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 shutting	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 plastered	nsubj
11	plastered	plaster	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 plastered	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 plastered	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 windows	cc
16	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 door	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 mud	case
18	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 windows	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 laid	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 laid	cc
21	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 plastered	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 rock	det
23	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 rock	amod
24	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 laid	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 top	case
26	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 laid	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 chimney	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 chimney	det
29	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 top	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sealed	cc
31	sealed	seal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 laid	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sealed	obj
33	around	around	ADV	_	31 sealed	advmod
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 mud	case
35	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sealed	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 took	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 took	cc
38	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 took	advcl
39	down	down	ADV	_	38 climbing	advmod
40	from	from	ADP	_	42 roof	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 roof	det
42	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 climbing	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 climbing	punct
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 took	nsubj
45	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 plastered	parataxis
46	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	47 other	det
47	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 hands	nmod:poss
48	’s	's	PART	_	47 other	case
49	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 took	obj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 ran	cc
51	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 took	conj
52	away	away	ADV	_	51 ran	advmod
53	to	to	ADP	_	55 south	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 south	det
55	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 ran	obl
56	as	as	ADV	_	57 fast	advmod
57	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	51 ran	advmod
58	as	as	ADP	_	59 ever	case
59	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	57 fast	obl
60	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 could	nsubj
61	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 fast	advcl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 plastered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut	gerund	cubs = cub not said here	the Cubs	the room	then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cub=Patient
2	plaster up	past	cubs = cub	the door and windows with mud				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent door=Theme
3	lay	past		a flat rock	top of the chimney			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rock=Theme on top=Destination
4	seal around	past		rock			with mud; around property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with mud=Instrument
5	climb down	gerund	cubs = cub not said here		the roof		down property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from roof=Trajectory
6	take	past	cubs = cub	each other's hands				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
7	run away	past	cubs = cub not said here			ever	to the south result; away, fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to south=Result

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 55