The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 68

Then the Trues bade the boy sit down, and offered him a white _manta_ (robe) for a seat; but he declined respectfully, saying that he had been taught, when in the presence of his elders, to sit on nothing save what he brought, and he sat upon his blanket and moccasins.

Who acts: Trues bade, bade, presence · What happens: sit down, offer, decline, say, teach, sit · To what, where: white _ manta, boy, bade, nothing, blanket · 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 (Trues bade, bade, presence), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 bade	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Trues	det
3	Trues	true	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bade	compound
4	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	nsubj
7	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 sit	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 offered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 offered	cc
11	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sit	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 offered	iobj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 manta	det
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 manta	amod
15	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 manta	compound
16	manta	manta	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 offered	obj
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 offered	punct
18	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 robe	punct
19	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 offered	parataxis
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 robe	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 seat	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 seat	det
23	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 offered	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 declined	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 declined	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 declined	nsubj
27	declined	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sit	parataxis
28	respectfully	respectfully	ADV	_	27 declined	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 saying	punct
30	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 declined	advcl
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 taught	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 taught	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 taught	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 taught	aux:pass
35	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 sit	advcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 taught	punct
37	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 presence	advmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 presence	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 presence	det
40	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 sit	nsubj
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 elders	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 elders	nmod:poss
43	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 presence	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 sit	punct
45	to	to	PART	_	46 sit	mark
46	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 saying	ccomp
47	on	on	ADP	_	48 nothing	case
48	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	46 sit	obl
49	save	save	ADP	_	50 what	case
50	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 nothing	nmod
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 brought	nsubj
52	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 what	acl:relcl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 sat	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 sat	cc
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 sat	nsubj
56	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 declined	conj
57	upon	upon	ADP	_	59 blanket	case
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 blanket	nmod:poss
59	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 sat	obl
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 moccasins	cc
61	moccasins	moccasin	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 blanket	conj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	infinitive	Trues bade				the boy nsubj	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	offer	past	Trues bade not said here	a white _ manta	boy		for a seat; robe parataxis	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal manta=Theme
3	decline	past	bade				respectfully property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	say speech: assert	gerund	bade not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		bade				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
6	sit	to-infinitive	the presence of boy's elders			nothing		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on nothing=Location
7	bring	past	presence					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
8	sit	past	presence			boy's blanket and moccasins		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon blanket=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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 68

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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 68