The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 43

They were dreadfully poor, and the house was almost falling down, and the poor, wrinkled Old-Woman-Mole sat huddled in the corner by the fireplace, trying to keep warm by a few dying coals.

Who acts: plains, house, fireplace · What happens: be, fall down, wrinkle, huddle, try, keep · To what, where: wrinkled Old Woman Mole, corner

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 (plains, house, fireplace), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 poor	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	cop
3	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	_	4 poor	advmod
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 falling	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 falling	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 falling	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 falling	aux
10	almost	almost	ADV	_	11 falling	advmod
11	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 poor	conj
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 falling	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 poor	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 poor	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 poor	det
16	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 poor	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wrinkled	punct
18	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 Mole	amod
19	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Mole	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 Old	punct
21	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Mole	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 Woman	punct
23	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 huddled	nsubj:pass
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 huddled	aux:pass
25	huddled	huddle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 poor	advcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 corner	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 corner	det
28	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 huddled	obl
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 fireplace	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fireplace	det
31	fireplace	fireplace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 huddled	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 trying	punct
33	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 poor	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 keep	mark
35	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 trying	xcomp
36	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 keep	xcomp
37	by	by	ADP	_	41 coals	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 coals	det
39	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 coals	amod
40	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 coals	amod
41	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 keep	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 poor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	plains = plain			dreadfully, poor property	tree rules
2	fall down	past · progressive	the house			almost property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be		plains = plain not said here				tree rules
4	wrinkle	participle					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	huddle	past · passive	the fireplace	wrinkled Old Woman Mole	the corner		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme
6	try	gerund	plains = plain not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	plains = plain not said here			by a few dying coals; warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by coal=Location
8	die	gerund					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 43

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 43