The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 47

Once she sat down to rest, and the boys slyly put a lot of big stones in the basket, set fire to her pitched hair, and hurriedly climbed a tall pine.

Who acts: woman, boys · What happens: sit down, rest, put, set, pitch, climb · To what, where: lot, basket, fire, tall pine

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 (woman, boys), 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	Once	once	SCONJ	_	3 sat	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 rest	mark
6	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sat	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 put	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boys	det
10	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 put	nsubj
11	slyly	slyly	ADV	_	10 boys	advmod
12	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lot	det
14	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 stones	case
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stones	amod
17	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lot	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 basket	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 basket	det
20	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 set	punct
22	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 put	conj
23	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 set	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 hair	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hair	nmod:poss
26	pitched	pitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 hair	amod
27	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 set	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 climbed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 climbed	cc
30	hurriedly	hurriedly	ADV	_	31 climbed	advmod
31	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 pine	det
33	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 pine	amod
34	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 climbed	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	woman			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rest	to-infinitive	woman not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put	present	the boys	a lot of big stones	the basket		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lot=Theme in basket=Destination
4	set	infinitive	the boys not said here	fire		to woman's pitched hair	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result
5	pitch	participle					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	climb	past	woman not said here	a tall pine		hurriedly property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location pine=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 man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 47

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 47