The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 19

Then it came that all the animals were made; and very soon the Coyote was sent by the Trues to carry a buckskin bag far south, and not to open it until he should come to the Peak of the White Clouds.

Who acts: póon, Trues, Coyote · What happens: come, make, send, carry, not open · To what, where: animals, Coyote, buckskin bag, póon, Peak

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Doctor Field-mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (póon, Trues, Coyote), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 made	mark
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 animals	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 animals	det
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 made	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	aux:pass
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	advcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 sent	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sent	cc
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 soon	advmod
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 sent	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Coyote	det
15	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 sent	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sent	aux:pass
17	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 Trues	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Trues	det
20	Trues	true	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sent	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 carry	mark
22	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 sent	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 bag	det
24	buckskin	buckskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bag	compound
25	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carry	obj
26	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 south	advmod
27	south	south	ADV	_	22 carry	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 open	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 open	cc
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 open	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 open	mark
32	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 open	obj
34	until	until	SCONJ	_	37 come	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 come	nsubj
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 come	aux
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 open	advcl
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 Peak	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Peak	det
40	Peak	Peak	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 come	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	44 Clouds	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Clouds	det
43	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Clouds	compound
44	Clouds	Cloud	PROPN	Number=Plur	40 Peak	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	póon			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past · passive		all animals				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	send	past · passive	the Trues	the Coyote			soon property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	carry	to-infinitive	the Trues not said here	a buckskin bag			south property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme
5	not open	to-infinitive	póon not said here	póon				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
6	come	should	Coyote		the Peak of the White Clouds			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to peak=Initial_Location

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, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 19