The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 63

At last, after a weary, weary way, he came so near the Sun Lake, that the _Whit-lah-wíd-deh_[67] of the Trues saw him coming, and went in to report.

Who acts: boy, Whit lah, wíd deh · What happens: come, deh, see, go in, report · To what, where: last weary weary way, Sun Lake, boy

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, Whit lah, wíd deh), 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	9 way	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 way	punct
4	after	after	ADP	_	9 way	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 way	det
6	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 weary	punct
8	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 way	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 way	acl:relcl
13	so	so	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	near	near	ADP	_	17 Lake	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Lake	det
16	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Lake	compound
17	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 saw	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 saw	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 deh	det
21	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 deh	punct
22	Whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lah	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 Whit	punct
24	lah	lah	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 deh	nsubj
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 lah	punct
26	wíd	wíd	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 deh	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 deh	punct
28	deh	deh	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 saw	nsubj
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 deh	punct
30	[	[	PUNCT	_	31 67	punct
31	67	67	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 deh	appos
32	]	]	PUNCT	_	31 67	punct
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 Trues	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Trues	det
35	Trues	true	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 67	nmod
36	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 saw	obj
38	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 saw	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 went	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 went	cc
41	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
42	in	in	ADV	_	41 went	advmod
43	to	to	PART	_	44 report	mark
44	report	report	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 went	xcomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	boy	a last weary weary way not said here	the Sun Lake		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	deh		Whit lah			67 of the Trues appos	tree rules
3	see	past	the wíd deh	boy			tree rules
4	come	gerund	boy not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go in	past	boy not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	report	to-infinitive	boy not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 63

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 63