The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 37

So one morning when the boy was about to start for a hunt, he heard his mother groaning as if about to die; and the Lake-Man said to him:

Who acts: boy, mother, Lake Man · What happens: be, start, hear, groan, die, say · To what, where: mother, boy · 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 (boy, mother, Lake Man), 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	So	so	ADV	_	8 about	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 morning	nummod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 about	obl:unmarked
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 about	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 about	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 about	cop
8	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 start	mark
10	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 about	xcomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 hunt	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hunt	det
13	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 start	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heard	nsubj
16	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 about	parataxis
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	obj
19	groaning	groan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 mother	acl
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 die	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 die	mark
22	about	about	ADV	_	24 die	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 die	mark
24	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 groaning	ccomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Man	det
28	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Man	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 Lake	punct
30	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 said	nsubj
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 about	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 said	obl
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boy			morning	about property	tree rules
2	start	to-infinitive	the boy not said here				for a hunt	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	hear	past	boy	boy's mother				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus
4	groan	gerund	boy's mother not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	die a condition, not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy's mother not said here				about property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	say speech: assert	past	the Lake Man		boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

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 37

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 37