The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 122
There he stood and prayed to the Trues that the lake might be accurst forever; and they heard his prayer, for from that day its waters turned salt, and no living thing has drunk therefrom.
Who acts: boy, Trues, lakes, waters · What happens: stand, pray, be, hear, turn, drink · To what, where: prayer, salt, living thing
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 (boy, Trues, lakes, waters), 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 stood | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 prayed | cc |
| 5 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Trues | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Trues | det |
| 8 | Trues | true | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 prayed | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 accurst | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lake | det |
| 11 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 accurst | nsubj |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 accurst | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 accurst | cop |
| 14 | accurst | accurst | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Trues | acl:relcl |
| 15 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 14 accurst | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 heard | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 heard | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 heard | nsubj |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 21 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heard | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 turned | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 turned | mark |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 day | case |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 day | det |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 turned | obl |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 waters | nmod:poss |
| 28 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 turned | nsubj |
| 29 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 heard | conj |
| 30 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 turned | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 drunk | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 drunk | cc |
| 33 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 35 thing | det |
| 34 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 thing | compound |
| 35 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 drunk | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 drunk | aux |
| 37 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stood | conj |
| 38 | therefrom | therefrom | ADV | _ | 37 drunk | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | boy | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pray | past | boy not said here | to the Trues | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | is | might | the Trues | the lake nsubj; accurst, forever property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | lakes = lake | boy's prayer | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer prayer=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | turn | past | prayer's waters | salt | day | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent salt=Theme | |||
| 6 | drink | present · perfect · passive | no living thing | therefrom property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 7 | pray | boy | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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