The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 89

But luckily for them, the Trues were still mindful of them; and just in the nick of time sent their servant, Teé-oh-pee, the Badger, who is the best of diggers, to dig a hole up through the floor; all the water ran out, and they were saved.

Who acts: Trues, nick, Teé, Badger, water · What happens: be, send, pee, dig up, run out, save · To what, where: servant, hole, lightnings

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 (Trues, nick, Teé, Badger), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 mindful	cc
2	luckily	luckily	ADV	_	4 them	advmod
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 mindful	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 them	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Trues	det
7	Trues	true	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 mindful	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 mindful	cop
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 mindful	advmod
10	mindful	mindful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 mindful	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 mindful	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 nick	cc
15	just	just	ADV	_	18 nick	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 nick	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 nick	det
18	nick	nick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mindful	conj
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 sent	mark
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sent	obl:unmarked
21	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 nick	acl
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 servant	nmod:poss
23	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sent	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pee	punct
25	Teé	Teé	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 pee	nsubj
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 pee	punct
27	oh	oh	INTJ	_	29 pee	discourse
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 oh	punct
29	pee	pee	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 nick	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Badger	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Badger	det
32	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 best	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 best	punct
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 best	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 best	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 best	det
37	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 nick	parataxis
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 diggers	case
39	diggers	digger	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 best	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 dig	punct
41	to	to	PART	_	42 dig	mark
42	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 best	conj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 hole	det
44	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 dig	obj
45	up	up	ADP	_	42 dig	compound:prt
46	through	through	ADP	_	48 floor	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 floor	det
48	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 dig	obl
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 ran	punct
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	52 water	det:predet
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 water	det
52	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 ran	nsubj
53	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 dig	conj
54	out	out	ADP	_	53 ran	compound:prt
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 saved	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 saved	cc
57	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 saved	nsubj
58	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 saved	aux:pass
59	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 mindful	parataxis
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 mindful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Trues		still	for lightnings = lightning; of lightnings = lightning; the nick and pee conj; mindful property	tree rules
2	send	past	the nick and pee not said here	lightnings's servant	time		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme
3	pee		Teé				tree rules
4	is	present	the Badger			of diggers; the nick and pee nsubj; good property	tree rules
5	dig up	to-infinitive	the Badger not said here	a hole		through the floor	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent hole=Instrument through floor=Patient
6	run out	past	all water				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	save	past · passive		lightnings = lightning			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 89