The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 7

While the warriors were sitting inside, the Mice came secretly by night to attack the town, and their spies crept up to the _estufa_.

Who acts: warriors, Mice, spies · What happens: sit, come, attack, creep up · To what, where: town, estufa

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 (warriors, Mice, spies), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 sitting	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 warriors	det
3	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sitting	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 came	advcl
6	inside	inside	ADV	_	5 sitting	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Mice	det
9	Mice	Mice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 attack	mark
15	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 came	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 town	det
17	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 attack	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 crept	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 crept	cc
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 spies	nmod:poss
21	spies	spy	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 crept	nsubj
22	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	parataxis
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 crept	compound:prt
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 estufa	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 estufa	det
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 estufa	punct
27	estufa	estufa	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 crept	obl
28	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 crept	punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the warriors				inside property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	the Mice			night	secretly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	attack	to-infinitive	the Mice not said here	the town				vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Patient
4	creep up	past	warriors's spies		the estufa			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to estufa=Destination

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 7

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 7