The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 24

But there was nothing in it except the stars; and as soon as the bag was opened they all flew up into the sky, where they are to this day.

Who acts: nothing, stars · What happens: be, open, fly up · To what, where: bag, sky

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 (nothing, stars), 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	_	3 was	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 was	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nothing	nmod
7	except	except	ADP	_	9 stars	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stars	det
9	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nothing	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 flew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 flew	cc
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 soon	advmod
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 flew	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 opened	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bag	det
16	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 opened	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 opened	aux:pass
18	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 soon	advcl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 flew	nsubj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 flew	advmod
21	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 was	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 flew	compound:prt
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 sky	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sky	det
25	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flew	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 day	punct
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 day	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 day	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 day	cop
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 day	case
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 day	det
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sky	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	nothing in bag except the stars		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	open	past · passive		the bag				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	fly up	past	stars = star				into the sky and this day result; soon property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sky=Result
4	is	present	stars = star			to this day		tree rules

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 24

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 24