The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 13

There chanced to be in a cliff to the southward a nest of white crows; and presently the young crows said: “_Nana_, what is that over there?

Who acts: young crows, Nana · What happens: chance, be, say · To what, where: cliff · 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, The Hero Twins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young crows, Nana), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 chanced	expl
2	chanced	chance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 said	ccomp
3	to	to	PART	_	7 cliff	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 cliff	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cliff	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cliff	det
7	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chanced	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 southward	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 southward	det
10	southward	southward	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cliff	nmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 nest	det
12	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 southward	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 crows	case
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 crows	amod
15	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 nest	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
18	presently	presently	ADV	_	22 said	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 crows	det
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 crows	amod
21	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 there	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 there	punct
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	26 Nana	punct
26	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 there	nsubj
27	_	_	PUNCT	_	26 Nana	punct
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 there	punct
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 there	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 there	cop
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 there	mark
32	over	over	ADV	_	33 there	advmod
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 said	parataxis
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	chance	participle		there		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive		a cliff	to the southward	tree rules
3	say speech: ask	past	the young crows		presently property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	present	Nana		what nsubj; over, there property	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 Hero Twins, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 13