The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 25

Then for two days she kept grinding on her _metate_, apparently alone, but hearing the constant grind of another _metate_ close beside her.

Who acts: fairy · What happens: keep, grind, hear · To what, where: _ metate, constant grind

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, A Pueblo Bluebeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 kept	advmod
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 days	case
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 days	nummod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kept	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	grinding	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 metate	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 metate	nmod:poss
10	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 metate	amod
11	metate	metate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grinding	obl
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 grinding	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 alone	punct
14	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	15 alone	advmod
15	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 kept	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hearing	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 hearing	cc
18	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 kept	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 grind	det
20	constant	constant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 grind	amod
21	grind	grind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hearing	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 another	case
23	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 grind	nmod
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 metate	punct
25	metate	metate	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hearing	obl
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 close	punct
27	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hearing	conj
28	beside	beside	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 close	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	fairy			then; day	alone property	tree rules
2	grind	gerund	fairy not said here		fairy's _ metate			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	hear	gerund	fairy not said here	the constant grind of another			metate obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer grind=Stimulus

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, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 25

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 25