The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 27

Because he came to talk with the other animals, if they could not cure him, they caught the toothache too; and that is the reason why they sometimes cry.

Who acts: deh, feet, that · What happens: come, talk, not cure, catch, be, cry · To what, where: deh, toothache, reason

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 (deh, feet, that), 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	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 came	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 reason	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 talk	mark
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 animals	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 animals	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animals	amod
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 talk	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cure	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 cure	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cure	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 cure	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 cure	advmod
15	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 talk	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cure	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 caught	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 caught	nsubj
19	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 toothache	det
21	toothache	toothache	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 caught	obj
22	too	too	ADV	_	19 caught	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 reason	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 reason	cc
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 reason	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 reason	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 reason	det
28	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
29	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	32 cry	advmod
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cry	nsubj
31	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 cry	advmod
32	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 reason	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 reason	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	deh			tree rules
2	talk	to-infinitive	deh not said here		with the other animals	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with animal=Co-Agent
3	not cure a condition, not said to happen	could	feet = foot	deh		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Source
4	catch	past	feet = foot	the toothache		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothache=Theme
5	is a	present	that	the reason		tree rules
6	cry speech: express	present	feet = foot		sometimes property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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 27

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 27