The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 38
“My boy, your mother has a terrible pain, and the only thing that will cure her is some ice from T’hoor-p’ah-whée-ai [Lake of the Sun],[65] the water from which the sun rises.”
Who acts: boy, only thing, sun · What happens: have, cure, be, rise · To what, where: terrible pain, Isleta, ice, p’ah whée ai, water
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, only thing, sun), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 boy | nmod:poss |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mother | punct |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boy | conj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pain | det |
| 9 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pain | amod |
| 10 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ice | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ice | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 thing | det |
| 14 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thing | amod |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ice | nsubj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 cure | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 cure | aux |
| 18 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thing | acl:relcl |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cure | obj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 ice | cop |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 ice | det |
| 22 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 ai | case |
| 24 | T’hoor | t'hoor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ai | nsubj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 T’hoor | punct |
| 26 | p’ah | p'ah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ai | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 whée | punct |
| 28 | whée | whée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ai | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 whée | punct |
| 30 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ice | nmod |
| 31 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 32 Lake | punct |
| 32 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 ai | appos |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Sun | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Sun | det |
| 35 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Lake | nmod |
| 36 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 32 Lake | punct |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 65 | punct |
| 38 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 39 65 | punct |
| 39 | 65 | 65 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 ice | appos |
| 40 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 39 65 | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 water | det |
| 42 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 65 | conj |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 which | case |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 rises | obl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 sun | det |
| 46 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 rises | nsubj |
| 47 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 water | acl:relcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 65 | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | My boy and your mother | a terrible pain | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cure in a quote | future | the only thing | Isleta | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Source | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the only thing | some ice | p’ah whée ai T’hoor | 65 and the water appos | tree rules | ||
| 4 | rise in a quote | present | the sun | the water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_Location |
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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