The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 25

They plowed and planted and tended the corn; and when it came harvest-time the Bear gathered all the stalks and ears and carried them home.

Who acts: bear, corn · What happens: plow, plant, tend, come, gather, carry · To what, where: corn, stalks

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 Bear[17]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, corn), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 plowed	nsubj
2	plowed	plow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 planted	cc
4	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 plowed	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tended	cc
6	tended	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 planted	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 corn	det
8	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tended	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 gathered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gathered	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 came	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 gathered	advcl
14	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 time	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 harvest	punct
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl:unmarked
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Bear	det
18	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 gathered	nsubj
19	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 plowed	parataxis
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 stalks	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 stalks	det
22	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 gathered	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ears	cc
24	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 stalks	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 carried	cc
26	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 gathered	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 carried	obj
28	home	home	ADV	_	26 carried	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 plowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	plow	past	bear				vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	plant	past	bear not said here				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	tend	past	bear not said here	the corn			vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Theme
4	come	past	corn		time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	gather	past	the Bear	all stalks and ears			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stalk=Theme
6	carry	past	the Bear not said here	stalks = stalk		home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/7/25/

🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 25

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 25