The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 86

By this time the Fawns had come to where two Indian boys were playing _k’wah-t’hím_[95] with their bows and arrows, and said to them:

Who acts: Fawns, two Indian boys · What happens: come, play, say · To what, where: t’hím, fawns · 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 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 (Fawns, two Indian boys), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Fawns	det
5	Fawns	fawn	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	to	to	SCONJ	_	14 playing	mark
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 playing	advmod
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 boys	nummod
11	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boys	amod
12	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 playing	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 playing	aux
14	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 come	advcl
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 t’hím	punct
16	k’wah	k'wah	INTJ	_	18 t’hím	discourse
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 k’wah	punct
18	t’hím	t'hím	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 playing	obl
19	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 95	punct
20	[	[	PUNCT	_	21 95	punct
21	95	95	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 playing	parataxis
22	]	]	PUNCT	_	21 95	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 bows	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 bows	nmod:poss
25	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 playing	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 arrows	cc
27	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bows	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	obl
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	the Fawns			time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	play	past · progressive	two Indian boys	t’hím			with fawns's bows and arrows; 95 parataxis	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with bow=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the Fawns not said here		fawns = fawn			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient

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 86