The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 91

Paying no attention to what was going on about him, he sat motionless upon the very crosspiece of the _estufa_ ladder--the highest point in all the town--with his head bowed upon his hands.

Who acts: rú, head · What happens: pay, go on, sit, bow · To what, where: attention, crosspiece, hands

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rú, head), 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	Paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 sat	advcl
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 attention	det
3	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Paying	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 what	case
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Paying	obl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 going	aux
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 what	acl:relcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 going	compound:prt
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 going	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Paying	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sat	xcomp
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 crosspiece	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 crosspiece	det
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 crosspiece	advmod
18	crosspiece	crosspiece	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	24 ladder	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ladder	det
21	_	_	PUNCT	_	24 ladder	punct
22	estufa	estufa	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 ladder	compound
23	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 estufa	punct
24	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 crosspiece	nmod
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 point	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 point	det
27	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 point	amod
28	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ladder	appos
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 town	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 town	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 town	det
32	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 point	nmod
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 bowed	punct
34	with	with	SCONJ	_	37 bowed	mark
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 head	nmod:poss
36	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bowed	nsubj
37	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sat	conj
38	upon	upon	ADP	_	40 hands	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 hands	nmod:poss
40	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 bowed	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pay	gerund	rú not said here	no attention		what obl	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
2	go on	past · progressive				about rú	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about he=Location
3	sit	past	rú		the crosspiece of the estufa ladder	motionless property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon crosspiece=Location
4	bow	past	rú's head		rú's hands		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon hand=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 tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 91