The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 85

He started out to find who had stolen it; and passing by Acoma he heard the thunder as the Hero Twins were playing ball with the lightning.

Who acts: wrath, Hero Twins · What happens: start out, find, steal, pass, hear, play · To what, where: occasion, thunder, ball · 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 (wrath, Hero 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 started	nsubj
2	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 started	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 find	mark
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 started	advcl
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 stolen	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stolen	aux
8	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 find	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stolen	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 heard	cc
12	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 heard	csubj
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 Acoma	case
14	Acoma	Acoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 passing	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heard	nsubj
16	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 started	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 thunder	det
18	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	obj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 playing	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Twins	det
21	Hero	Hero	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Twins	compound
22	Twins	Twin	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 playing	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 playing	aux
24	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 heard	advcl
25	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 playing	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 lightning	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 lightning	det
28	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 playing	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	start out	past	wrath			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	find	to-infinitive	wrath not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	steal	past · perfect		occasion	who nsubj	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
4	pass	gerund			by Acoma	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by acoma=Location
5	hear	past	wrath	the thunder		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thunder=Stimulus
6	play	past · progressive	the Hero Twins	ball	with the lightning	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent ball=Theme with lightning=Co-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 85

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 85