The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 9

One day, when the witch-wife was planning to go to a meeting, she stole a fat young baby and put it to cook in a great _olla_ (earthen jar) in the dark inner room.

Who acts: witch wife, wife · What happens: plan, go, steal, put, cook · To what, where: earthen jar, dark inner room, meeting, fat young baby, baby

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 (witch wife, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 planning	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 planning	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wife	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wife	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 witch	punct
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 planning	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 planning	aux
10	planning	plan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 go	mark
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 planning	xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 meeting	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 meeting	det
15	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stole	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stole	nsubj
18	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 planning	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 baby	det
20	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 baby	amod
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 baby	amod
22	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stole	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 put	cc
24	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 stole	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 cook	mark
27	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 put	xcomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	32 olla	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 olla	det
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 olla	amod
31	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 olla	compound
32	olla	olla	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cook	obl
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 stole	punct
34	(	(	PUNCT	_	36 jar	punct
35	earthen	earthen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 jar	amod
36	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 planning	obl
37	)	)	PUNCT	_	36 jar	punct
38	in	in	ADP	_	42 room	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 room	det
40	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 room	amod
41	inner	inner	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 room	amod
42	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 planning	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 planning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plan	past · progressive	the witch wife	earthen jar	the dark inner room	day		vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the witch wife not said here		a meeting			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to meeting=Initial_Location
3	steal	past	wife	a fat young baby				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location baby=Theme
4	put	infinitive	wife not said here	baby				tree rules
5	cook	to-infinitive	wife not said here				in a great _ olla	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in olla=Instrument

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 9

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 9