The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 76
Then they put him into the room of the North, with the eagle and the hawk; then into the room of the West, with the snakes; and lastly, into the room of the South, where were the Apaches and all the other human enemies of his people.
Who acts: Trues · What happens: put, be · To what, where: particle, room, Apaches
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), 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 | 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 North | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 North | det |
| 10 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 room | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eagle | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 eagle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 eagle | det |
| 14 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hawk | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hawk | det |
| 17 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eagle | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 room | punct |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 room | advmod |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 room | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 room | det |
| 22 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 West | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 West | det |
| 25 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 room | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 snakes | punct |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 snakes | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 snakes | det |
| 29 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 lastly | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 lastly | cc |
| 32 | lastly | lastly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 put | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 room | punct |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 room | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 room | det |
| 36 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lastly | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 South | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 South | det |
| 39 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 room | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 Apaches | punct |
| 41 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 44 Apaches | advmod |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 Apaches | cop |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Apaches | det |
| 44 | Apaches | apache | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 room | appos |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 enemies | cc |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 50 enemies | det:predet |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 enemies | det |
| 48 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 enemies | amod |
| 49 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 enemies | amod |
| 50 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 Apaches | conj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 people | case |
| 52 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 people | nmod:poss |
| 53 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 enemies | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Trues = true | particle | the room of the North | then | with the eagle and the hawk; with the snakes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal | |
| 2 | is a | past | the Apaches and all other human enemies of particle's people | all other human enemies of particle's people conj | 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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