The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 49

The sovereign remedy for toothache, however, is to go to the _estufa_ after dark, carrying food in the left hand, march round inside the big circular room three times, leave the food under the secret recess in the wall where the scalps taken in old wars are kept, and then come out.

Who acts: sovereign remedy · What happens: be, carry, march, leave, take, keep · To what, where: food, left hand, big circular room, secret recess, scalps, old wars

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 (sovereign remedy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 remedy	det
2	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remedy	compound
3	remedy	remedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 toothache	case
5	toothache	toothache	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remedy	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 remedy	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 however	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 go	cop
10	to	to	PART	_	11 go	mark
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 estufa	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 estufa	det
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 estufa	punct
15	estufa	estufa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 dark	punct
17	after	after	ADP	_	18 dark	case
18	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 go	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 carrying	punct
20	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 dark	advcl
21	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 carrying	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 hand	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hand	det
24	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hand	amod
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 carrying	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 march	punct
27	march	march	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	conj
28	round	round	ADV	_	27 march	advmod
29	inside	inside	ADP	_	33 room	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 room	det
31	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 room	amod
32	circular	circular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 room	amod
33	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 march	obl
34	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 times	nummod
35	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 march	obl:unmarked
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 leave	punct
37	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	parataxis
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 food	det
39	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 leave	obj
40	under	under	ADP	_	43 recess	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 recess	det
42	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 recess	amod
43	recess	recess	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 leave	obl
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 wall	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 wall	det
46	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 leave	obl
47	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	55 kept	advmod
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 scalps	det
49	scalps	scalp	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 kept	nsubj:pass
50	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 scalps	acl
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 wars	case
52	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 wars	amod
53	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 taken	obl
54	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 kept	aux:pass
55	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 wall	acl:relcl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 come	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 come	cc
58	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	59 come	advmod
59	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	conj
60	out	out	ADV	_	59 come	advmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the sovereign remedy for toothache				to the estufa; go, however property	tree rules
2	carry	gerund	the sovereign remedy for toothache not said here	food	the left hand			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Value in hand=Location
3	march	infinitive	the sovereign remedy for toothache not said here		the big circular room	time	round property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside room=Trajectory
4	leave	infinitive		the food	the secret recess		in the wall	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Theme under recess=Location
5	take	participle		the scalps not said here	old wars			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in war=Location
6	keep	present · passive		the scalps				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	come out	infinitive	the sovereign remedy for toothache not said here			then	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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 49