The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 12

The rest of the town made such fun of the warriors that they refused to return to the fight; and the elated Mice held a public dance in front of the _estufa_.

Who acts: rest, warriors, elated Mice · What happens: make, refuse, not return, elate, hold · To what, where: such fun, warriors, public dance, front

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The War-dance of the Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, warriors, elated Mice), 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	2 rest	det
2	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 town	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 town	det
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rest	nmod
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fun	amod
8	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 warriors	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 warriors	det
11	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fun	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 refused	obj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 refused	nsubj
14	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 warriors	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 return	mark
16	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 refused	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 fight	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fight	det
19	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 return	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 held	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 held	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Mice	det
23	elated	elate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 Mice	amod
24	Mice	Mice	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 held	nsubj
25	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 dance	det
27	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 dance	amod
28	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 held	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 front	case
30	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dance	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 estufa	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 estufa	det
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	34 estufa	punct
34	estufa	estufa	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 front	nmod
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 held	punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	the rest of the town	such fun of the warriors			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product
2	refuse	past	warriors = warrior	the warriors			tree rules
3	not return	to-infinitive	warriors = warrior not said here			to the fight result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to fight=Result
4	elate	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	hold	past	the elated Mice	a public dance	front of the estufa		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dance=Theme in front=Location

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, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 12