The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 73

He finished the second _weer_[69] without being sick at all; and the Trues said, “Yes, he is our son.

Who acts: particle, Trues · What happens: finish, be, say · To what, where: 69, all, son · 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 (particle, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 finished	nsubj
2	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 second	det
4	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 weer	obl:unmarked
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 second	punct
6	weer	wee	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 finished	xcomp
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 finished	punct
8	[	[	PUNCT	_	9 69	punct
9	69	69	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 finished	obl
10	]	]	PUNCT	_	9 69	punct
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 sick	mark
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 sick	cop
13	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 finished	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 sick	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Trues	det
19	Trues	true	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 finished	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 son	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 son	punct
23	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	28 son	discourse
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Yes	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 son	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 son	cop
27	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 son	nmod:poss
28	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	finish	past	particle	69		wee property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	gerund	particle not said here		all	sick property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the Trues				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	particle	our son		our nmod:poss	tree rules

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 73

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 73