The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 3

Now it is to open the big mother-canal that comes from the river to all the fields, giving them to drink after their long thirst; and now to plow the _milpas_, and to uncover the buried grape-vines, and make ready for the farmer’s work.

Who acts: end, big mother canal, fields, farmer · What happens: be, come, give, drink, plow, uncover · To what, where: river, fields, milpas, buried grape vines

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 (end, big mother canal, fields, farmer), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 open	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 open	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 open	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 open	mark
5	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 canal	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 canal	amod
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 canal	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 mother	punct
10	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 open	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 comes	nsubj
12	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 canal	acl:relcl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 river	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 comes	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 fields	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 fields	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fields	det
19	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 comes	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 giving	punct
21	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 comes	advcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 giving	iobj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 drink	mark
24	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 giving	advcl
25	after	after	ADP	_	28 thirst	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 thirst	nmod:poss
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 thirst	amod
28	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drink	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 plow	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 plow	cc
31	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 plow	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 plow	mark
33	plow	plow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 open	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 milpas	det
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	36 milpas	punct
36	milpas	milpa	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 plow	obj
37	_	_	PUNCT	_	36 milpas	punct
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 uncover	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 uncover	cc
40	to	to	PART	_	41 uncover	mark
41	uncover	uncover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 plow	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 vines	det
43	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 vines	amod
44	grape	grape	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 vines	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 grape	punct
46	vines	vine	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 uncover	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 make	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 make	cc
49	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 plow	conj
50	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 make	xcomp
51	for	for	ADP	_	55 work	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 farmer	det
53	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 work	nmod:poss
54	’s	's	PART	_	53 farmer	case
55	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 ready	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 open	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	end				now	the big mother canal obj; open property	tree rules
2	come	present	the big mother canal			the river		to all fields	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from river=Initial_Location to field=Destination
3	give	gerund	the big mother canal not said here		fields = field				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	drink	to-infinitive	the big mother canal not said here				after fields's long thirst		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	plow	to-infinitive	end not said here	the milpas			now		vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent milpa=Initial_Location
6	uncover	to-infinitive	end not said here	the buried grape vines					tree rules
7	bury	participle							vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	make	infinitive	end not said here					ready property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
9	thirst		fields = field						nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=agent
10	work		the farmer						nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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 3