The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 10

But before night she found she must go for water, and as the strange stone reservoir at Acoma is a laborious half-mile from the houses, she would be gone some time.

Who acts: wife · What happens: find, go, be · To what, where: laborious half mile, houses, wife · 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 Sobbing Pine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 found	cc
2	before	before	ADP	_	3 night	case
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	nsubj
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 found	ccomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 water	case
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mile	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 mile	cc
13	as	as	ADP	_	17 reservoir	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 reservoir	det
15	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 reservoir	amod
16	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reservoir	compound
17	reservoir	reservoir	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mile	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 Acoma	case
19	Acoma	Acoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 reservoir	nmod
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 mile	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 mile	det
22	laborious	laborious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 mile	amod
23	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	25 mile	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 half	punct
25	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obl
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 houses	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 houses	det
28	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 mile	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 gone	punct
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 gone	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 gone	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 gone	aux:pass
33	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 found	conj
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 time	det
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gone	obl:unmarked
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	wife			night		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go	must	wife				for water	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for water=Beneficiary
3	is a	present		a laborious half mile	the houses		as the strange stone reservoir at Acoma	tree rules
4	go	would · passive		wife		time		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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 Sobbing Pine, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 10