The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 10

So that evening, when the Coyote-mother had made supper ready, there came the Woodpecker-father and the Woodpecker-mother with their three children.

Who acts: Woodpecker father · What happens: make, come · To what, where: Coyote mother

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 Woodpecker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodpecker father), 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	So	so	ADV	_	13 ready	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ready	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 made	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mother	det
7	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mother	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Coyote	punct
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	aux
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 evening	acl:relcl
12	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obj
13	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 came	expl
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ready	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 father	det
18	Woodpecker	Woodpecker	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 father	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Woodpecker	punct
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 mother	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mother	det
23	Woodpecker	Woodpecker	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 mother	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 Woodpecker	punct
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 father	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 children	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 children	nmod:poss
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 children	nummod
29	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 came	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · perfect · passive		the Coyote mother				supper obj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary supper=Product
2	come	past	the Woodpecker father and the Woodpecker mother			there		with Woodpecker's three children	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 10