The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 75

So they put him into the room of the East with the bear and the lion; and the savage animals came forward and breathed on him, but would not hurt him.

Who acts: Trues, savage animals · What happens: put, come forward, breathe, not hurt · To what, where: particle, room

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, savage animals), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 put	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 room	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 East	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 East	det
10	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 room	nmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 bear	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bear	det
13	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 room	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lion	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lion	det
16	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bear	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 came	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 animals	det
20	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 animals	amod
21	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	parataxis
23	forward	forward	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 breathed	cc
25	breathed	breathe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 came	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 breathed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hurt	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 hurt	cc
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 hurt	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 hurt	advmod
32	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 put	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 hurt	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	Trues = true		particle	the room of the East with the bear and the lion		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
2	come forward	past	the savage animals				forward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	breathe	participle	the savage animals not said here				on particle	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on he=Destination
4	not hurt	would	Trues = true not said here	particle				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient

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 75

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 75