The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 19

Then they tied the end of the lasso around the tree so the bag could not come down, and ran around picking up all the pebbles they could find.

Who acts: Blackbirds, bag · What happens: tie, not come down, run around, pick up, find · To what, where: end, pebbles

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Blackbirds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blackbirds, bag), 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 tied	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tied	nsubj
3	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 end	det
5	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tied	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 lasso	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lasso	det
8	lasso	lasso	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 end	nmod
9	around	around	ADP	_	11 tree	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lasso	nmod
12	so	so	SCONJ	_	17 come	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bag	det
14	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 come	advmod
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tied	advcl
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ran	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ran	cc
21	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tied	conj
22	around	around	ADV	_	21 ran	advmod
23	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 ran	advcl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 picking	compound:prt
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 pebbles	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 pebbles	det
27	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 picking	obj
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 find	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 find	aux
30	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 pebbles	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	Blackbirds = blackbird	the end of the lasso around the tree	then		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient
2	not come down	could	the bag			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run around	past	Blackbirds = blackbird not said here			around property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pick up	gerund	Blackbirds = blackbird not said here	all pebbles			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Topic
5	find	could	Blackbirds = blackbird	all pebbles not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Topic

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 Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 19