The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 86

The people of Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee burned all the witches upon the spot, in a great pile of corn; but somehow one escaped, and from him come all the witches that trouble us to this day.

Who acts: people, one · What happens: burn, escape, come · To what, where: witches, great pile

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 (people, one), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 burned	nsubj
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 people	nmod
13	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 witches	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 witches	det
16	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 burned	obj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 spot	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 spot	det
19	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 burned	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pile	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 pile	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pile	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pile	amod
24	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 burned	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 corn	case
26	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pile	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 escaped	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 escaped	cc
29	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	30 one	advmod
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 escaped	nsubj
31	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 burned	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 come	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 come	cc
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 come	obl
36	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 escaped	conj
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 witches	det:predet
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 witches	det
39	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 come	obl
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 trouble	det
41	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 witches	conj
42	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 trouble	nmod
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 day	case
44	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 day	det
45	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 come	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 burned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	the people of ee bah tóo	all witches	a great pile of corn		upon the spot	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent witch=Theme
2	escape	past	one					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	infinitive	one not said here	all witches and that trouble us		day	from tóo	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial_Location

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 86

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 86