The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 23

And opening doors on four sides of the room he showed the Hunter four other huge rooms, all piled from floor to ceiling with corn and wheat and dried squash and the like.

Who acts: paht, Hunter, four other huge rooms · What happens: open, show, room, pile, dry · To what, where: doors, four sides, all, floor · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (paht, Hunter, four other huge rooms), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 showed	cc
2	opening	open	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 showed	csubj
3	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 opening	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 sides	case
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sides	nummod
6	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 opening	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 room	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sides	nmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 showed	nsubj
11	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Hunter	det
13	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 rooms	nsubj
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 rooms	nummod
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rooms	amod
16	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rooms	amod
17	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 showed	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 piled	punct
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 piled	nsubj:pass
20	piled	pile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 rooms	acl
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 floor	case
22	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 piled	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 ceiling	case
24	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 piled	obl
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 corn	case
26	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 piled	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 wheat	cc
28	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 corn	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 squash	cc
30	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 squash	amod
31	squash	squash	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 corn	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 like	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 like	det
34	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 corn	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	gerund		doors	four sides of the room		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent door=Theme on side=Location
2	show	past	paht				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	room		the Hunter				tree rules
4	pile	participle · passive	four other huge rooms not said here	all	floor	to ceiling; with corn and wheat and dried squash	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with corn=Theme
5	dry	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 23

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 23