The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 69

When he had told his story, the Trues tried him, and gave him the sacred _weer_ to smoke--a hollow reed rammed with _pee-en-hleh_.

Who acts: boy, Trues · What happens: tell, try, give, smoke, ram · To what, where: story, boy, hollow reed · 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), 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	SCONJ	_	4 told	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 story	nmod:poss
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tried	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Trues	det
9	Trues	true	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tried	nsubj
10	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tried	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gave	cc
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tried	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gave	iobj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sacred	det
17	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 weer	obl:unmarked
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 sacred	punct
19	weer	wee	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 gave	conj
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 smoke	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	22 smoke	mark
22	smoke	smoke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 weer	parataxis
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 reed	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 reed	det
25	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 reed	amod
26	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 smoke	obl
27	rammed	ram	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 reed	acl
28	with	with	ADP	_	34 hleh	case
29	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 hleh	amod
30	pee	pee	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hleh	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 pee	punct
32	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hleh	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 hleh	punct
34	hleh	hleh	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rammed	obl
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 smoke	punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	boy	boy's story			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	try	past	the Trues	boy			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
3	give	past	the Trues not said here		boy		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	smoke	to-infinitive		a hollow reed			vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	ram	participle		a hollow reed not said here		with _ pee en hleh	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme

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 69

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 69