The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 34

When she was about to arrive, the Twins ran ahead to the house and told her father, mother, and sister to leave the house until she should enter; but not knowing what was to come, they would not go out.

Who acts: Mother, Twins · What happens: be, arrive, run, tell, leave, enter · To what, where: father, house · 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 (Mother, Twins), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 about	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 about	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 about	cop
4	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ran	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 arrive	mark
6	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 about	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 about	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Twins	det
9	Twins	Twin	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 ran	nsubj
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	10 ran	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ran	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ran	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	iobj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mother	punct
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 father	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sister	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sister	cc
23	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 leave	mark
25	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sister	acl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 house	det
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 leave	obj
28	until	until	SCONJ	_	31 enter	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 enter	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 enter	aux
31	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 leave	advcl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 go	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 go	cc
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 knowing	advmod
35	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 go	advcl
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 come	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 come	aux
38	to	to	PART	_	39 come	mark
39	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 knowing	ccomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 knowing	punct
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 go	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 go	aux
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 go	advmod
44	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 ran	conj
45	out	out	ADV	_	44 go	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mother			about property	tree rules
2	arrive	to-infinitive	Mother not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run	past	the Twins			to the house result; ahead property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result
4	tell speech: assert	past	the Twins not said here		Mother's father and mother	sister ccomp	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
5	leave	to-infinitive	the Twins not said here	the house			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
6	enter	should	Mother				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not know	gerund	Twins = twin not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	come	past				what nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	not go out	would	Twins = twin			out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 34