The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 106

There they tried him with the _weer_ and the fire, just as the Trues of the East had done, but he proved himself a man, and they gave him the ice.

Who acts: Trues, Friend · What happens: try, do, prove, give · To what, where: Friend, ice

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Trues, Friend), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 tried	expl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tried	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 _	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 _	det
7	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tried	obl
8	weer	wee	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 _	amod
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fire	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tried	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Trues	punct
14	just	just	ADV	_	17 Trues	advmod
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 Trues	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Trues	det
17	Trues	true	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 done	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 East	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 East	det
20	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Trues	nmod
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 done	aux
22	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 tried	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 proved	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 proved	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 proved	nsubj
26	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	conj
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 proved	obj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 man	det
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 proved	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 gave	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 gave	cc
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 gave	nsubj
33	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 gave	iobj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ice	det
36	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gave	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	Trues = true	Friend		there	with the _; the fire conj	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Patient with _=Theme
2	do	past · perfect	the Trues of the East					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	prove	past	Friend	Friend			a man obj	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme man=Attribute
4	give	past	Trues = true	the ice	Friend			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ice=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 Accursed Lake, sentence 106

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Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 106