The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 26

So Too-wháy-deh went out with his toothache, running all over the world groaning and crying; and when the other four-feet slept he could only sit and howl.

Who acts: wháy deh, other four feet, deh · What happens: go out, run, groan, cry, sleep, sit · To what, where: world

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 (wháy deh, other four feet, deh), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
2	Too	too	ADV	_	6 deh	advmod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Too	punct
4	wháy	wháy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deh	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 wháy	punct
6	deh	deh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 toothache	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 toothache	nmod:poss
11	toothache	toothache	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 running	punct
13	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 went	advcl
14	all	all	ADV	_	17 world	advmod
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 world	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 running	obl
18	groaning	groan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 running	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 crying	cc
20	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 groaning	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 slept	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 slept	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 slept	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 feet	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 feet	amod
26	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 feet	nummod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 four	punct
28	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 slept	nsubj
29	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sit	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 sit	aux
32	only	only	ADV	_	33 sit	advmod
33	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 slept	ccomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 howl	cc
35	howl	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 sit	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go out	past	wháy deh		with deh's toothache; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with toothache=Co-Agent
2	run	gerund	wháy deh not said here	the world		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over world=Trajectory
3	groan	gerund	wháy deh not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	gerund	wháy deh not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sleep	past	the other four feet			tree rules
6	sit	could	deh			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	howl	infinitive	deh not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 26

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 26