The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 65
“Let him be brought in,” said the Trues; and the Whit-lah-wíd-deh took the boy in and in through eight rooms, until he stood in the presence of all the gods, in a vast room.
Who acts: boy, Trues, wíd deh, deh · What happens: let, bring in, say, take in, stand · To what, where: boy, presence · 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, Trues, wíd deh, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 brought | aux:pass |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 brought | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Trues | det |
| 11 | Trues | true | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 took | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 deh | det |
| 15 | Whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lah | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Whit | punct |
| 17 | lah | lah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wíd | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 lah | punct |
| 19 | wíd | wíd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 deh | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 wíd | punct |
| 21 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | nsubj |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 boy | det |
| 24 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 took | compound:prt |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 rooms | cc |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 rooms | case |
| 28 | through | through | ADP | _ | 30 rooms | case |
| 29 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 rooms | nummod |
| 30 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 took | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 stood | punct |
| 32 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 34 stood | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 stood | nsubj |
| 34 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 took | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 presence | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 presence | det |
| 37 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 stood | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 gods | case |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 gods | det:predet |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 gods | det |
| 41 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 presence | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 room | punct |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 room | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 room | det |
| 45 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 room | amod |
| 46 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 stood | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | boy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bring in in a quote | infinitive · passive | boy not said here | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Trues | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take in | past | the wíd deh | the boy | eight rooms conj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument boy=Destination | |||
| 5 | stand | past | deh | the presence of all gods | in a vast room | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in presence=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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