The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 6

But, alas! she was secretly a witch and every night when Ees-tée-ah Muts was asleep she used to fly away to the mountains, where the witches held their uncanny meetings.

Who acts: squirrel, Ees, witches · What happens: be, use, fly away, hold · To what, where: witch, uncanny meetings

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 (squirrel, Ees, witches), 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	_	9 witch	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 witch	punct
3	alas	alas	INTJ	_	9 witch	discourse
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 alas	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 witch	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 witch	cop
7	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	9 witch	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 witch	det
9	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 night	cc
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 witch	conj
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 asleep	mark
14	Ees	ee	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 asleep	nsubj
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 tée	punct
16	tée	tée	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 asleep	nsubj
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 ah	punct
18	ah	ah	INTJ	_	16 tée	appos
19	Muts	mut	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ah	vocative
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 asleep	cop
21	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 witch	advcl
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 used	nsubj
23	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 asleep	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 fly	mark
25	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 used	xcomp
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 fly	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 mountains	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mountains	det
29	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fly	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 held	punct
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 held	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 witches	det
33	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 held	nsubj
34	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 mountains	acl:relcl
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 meetings	nmod:poss
36	uncanny	uncanny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 meetings	amod
37	meetings	meeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 held	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 witch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	squirrel	a witch and every night	secretly property	tree rules
2	is	past	Ees		tée nsubj; asleep property	tree rules
3	use	past	squirrel			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	fly away	to-infinitive	squirrel not said here		to the mountains result; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mountain=Result
5	hold	past	the witches	witch's uncanny meetings		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meeting=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 6

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 6