The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 2

A man of Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee and his wife were attacked by Apaches while out on the plains one day, and took refuge in a cave, where they were besieged.

Who acts: Apaches · What happens: attack, while out, take, besiege · To what, where: man, plains, refuge, cave, Apaches

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Antelope Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Apaches), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 attacked	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	12 ee	case
4	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	12 ee	discourse
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Nah	punct
6	bah	bah	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tóo	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 bah	punct
8	tóo	tóo	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ee	nsubj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 ee	punct
10	too	too	ADV	_	12 ee	advmod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 too	punct
12	ee	ee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 man	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wife	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wife	nmod:poss
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ee	conj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 attacked	aux:pass
17	attacked	attack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	by	by	SCONJ	_	20 while	mark
19	Apaches	apache	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 while	nsubj
20	while	while	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 attacked	advcl
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 while	compound:prt
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 plains	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 plains	det
24	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 while	obl
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 day	nummod
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 plains	nmod:unmarked
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 took	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 took	cc
29	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 attacked	parataxis
30	refuge	refuge	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 took	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 cave	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 cave	det
33	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 took	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 besieged	punct
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	38 besieged	advmod
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 besieged	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 besieged	aux:pass
38	besieged	besiege	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 took	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 attacked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	attack	past · passive		a man of ee bah tóo and tóo's wife		vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	while out	present	Apaches		the plains one day	tree rules
3	take	past		refuge	a cave	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in cave=Location
4	besiege	past · passive		Apaches = apache		tree rules

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 Antelope Boy, sentence 2