The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 59

When you come into the house of the Trues, they will tempt you with a seat; but you must sit down only on what you have.

Who acts: you, Trues · What happens: come, tempt, sit down, have · To what, where: house, you

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 (you, Trues), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 come	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tempt	advcl
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Trues	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Trues	det
9	Trues	true	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 house	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tempt	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tempt	aux
13	tempt	tempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tempt	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 seat	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 seat	det
17	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tempt	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 sit	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 sit	cc
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 sit	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 sit	aux
22	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tempt	conj
23	down	down	ADP	_	22 sit	compound:prt
24	only	only	ADV	_	26 what	advmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 what	case
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 sit	obj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 what	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tempt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	you		the house of the Trues		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location
2	tempt	future	Trues = true	you		with a seat	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	sit down	must	you			what obj	tree rules
4	have	present	you				vn birth-28.2-1 «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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 59

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 59