The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 35
At last the Lake-Man, who was of an evil heart, pretended to show the Hunter something in the east room; and pushing him in, locked the great door and left him there to starve--for the room was full of the bones of men whom he had already entrapped in the same way.
Who acts: Lake Man, pushing, room, As · What happens: be, pretend, show, push, lock, leave · To what, where: evil heart, something, As, great door, last, men
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 (Lake Man, pushing, room, As), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 locked | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Man | det |
| 4 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Man | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Lake | punct |
| 6 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 last | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heart | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 heart | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 heart | cop |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 heart | det |
| 12 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 heart | amod |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Man | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pretended | punct |
| 15 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 heart | acl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 show | mark |
| 17 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 pretended | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 something | det |
| 19 | Hunter | Hunter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 something | compound |
| 20 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 show | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 room | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 room | det |
| 23 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 room | compound |
| 24 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 something | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 locked | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 locked | cc |
| 27 | pushing | push | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 locked | csubj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 pushing | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADV | _ | 27 pushing | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 pushing | punct |
| 31 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 door | det |
| 33 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 door | amod |
| 34 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 locked | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 left | cc |
| 36 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 locked | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 left | obj |
| 38 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 left | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 starve | mark |
| 40 | starve | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 left | advcl |
| 41 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 46 full | punct |
| 42 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 46 full | mark |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 room | det |
| 44 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 full | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 full | cop |
| 46 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 starve | advcl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 bones | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 bones | det |
| 49 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 full | obl |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 men | case |
| 51 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 bones | nmod |
| 52 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 56 entrapped | obl |
| 53 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 entrapped | nsubj |
| 54 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 entrapped | aux |
| 55 | already | already | ADV | _ | 56 entrapped | advmod |
| 56 | entrapped | entrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 51 men | acl:relcl |
| 57 | in | in | ADP | _ | 60 way | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 way | det |
| 59 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 way | amod |
| 60 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 entrapped | obl |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 locked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Lake Man | of a evil heart | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pretend | participle | a evil heart not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | something | in the east room | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent something=Patient in room=Topic | ||||
| 4 | push | gerund | As | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lock | past | pushing | the great door | last the Lake Man | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 6 | leave | past | pushing not said here | As | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 7 | starve | to-infinitive | pushing not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | is | past | the room | of the bones of men; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | entrap | past · perfect | As | men | the same way | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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