The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 29

Mast-Truan had taken away the ladder from the house when he left, that no one might be able to get out; but with her basket and rope the good old fairy-woman let them all down to the ground, and told them to hurry home--which they did as fast as ever their poor, starved legs could carry them.

Who acts: kernel, one, good old fairy woman · What happens: take away, leave, be, get out, let, tell · To what, where: Truan, basket · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (kernel, one, good old fairy woman), 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	Mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taken	obl:unmarked
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Mast	punct
3	Truan	Truan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 taken	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	aux
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 taken	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ladder	det
8	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taken	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ladder	nmod
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 left	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	nsubj
14	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 able	punct
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 able	mark
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 able	nsubj
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 able	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	cop
21	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 left	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 get	mark
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	xcomp
24	out	out	ADV	_	23 get	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 let	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 let	cc
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 basket	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 basket	nmod:poss
29	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 let	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 rope	cc
31	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 basket	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 woman	det
33	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 woman	amod
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 woman	amod
35	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 woman	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 fairy	punct
37	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 let	nsubj
38	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 taken	parataxis
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 let	obj
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 them	nmod:unmarked
41	down	down	ADV	_	38 let	advmod
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 ground	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 ground	det
44	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 down	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 told	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 told	cc
47	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 let	advcl
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 told	iobj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 hurry	mark
50	hurry	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 told	xcomp
51	home	home	ADV	_	50 hurry	advmod
52	--	--	PUNCT	_	66 carry	punct
53	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	66 carry	nsubj
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 carry	nsubj
55	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 carry	aux
56	as	as	ADV	_	57 fast	advmod
57	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	66 carry	advmod
58	as	as	SCONJ	_	61 poor	mark
59	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	61 poor	advmod
60	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 poor	nmod:poss
61	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 carry	advcl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 poor	punct
63	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	64 legs	amod
64	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 carry	nsubj
65	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	66 carry	aux
66	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 hurry	advcl
67	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 carry	obj
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take away	past · perfect · passive		Truan		Mast obl:unmarked; the ladder obj; away property	tree rules
2	leave	past	kernel				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	might	no one			able property	tree rules
4	get out	to-infinitive	no one not said here			out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	let	infinitive	the good old fairy woman	basket		with Truan's basket and rope; down property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	past	the good old fairy woman not said here		basket		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
7	hurry not said to happen	to-infinitive	the good old fairy woman not said here			home property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	starve	participle					tree rules
9	carry	could · past · do-support		basket		which nsubj; starved legs nsubj; fast property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 29