The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 44

Then he drew from his left-hand bag the roots one by one; and last of all, the root of the _chee-ma-hár_, explaining what it had done for Kee-oo-ée-deh.

Who acts: deh · What happens: draw, explain, do · To what, where: hár · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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 drew	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	9 bag	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bag	nmod:poss
6	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hand	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 left	punct
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bag	compound
9	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 roots	det
11	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bag	conj
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 roots	flat
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 one	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 one	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 last	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 last	cc
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drew	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 last	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 root	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 root	det
22	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	30 hár	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hár	det
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 ma	punct
26	chee	chee	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ma	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 chee	punct
28	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hár	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 ma	punct
30	hár	hár	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 root	nmod
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 explaining	punct
33	explaining	explain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 drew	advcl
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 done	obj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 done	nsubj:pass
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 done	aux
37	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 explaining	ccomp
38	for	for	ADP	_	45 deh	case
39	Kee	Kee	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 deh	nsubj
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 Kee	punct
41	oo	oo	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 Kee	appos
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 oo	punct
43	ée	ée	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 deh	compound
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 ée	punct
45	deh	deh	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 done	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	deh		then	from deh's hand bag and the roots; the root of the ma hár parataxis	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from bag=Co-Patient
2	explain speech: assert	gerund	deh not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	past · perfect · passive		hár		for ée deh Kee; what obj	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 tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 44