The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 83
Then the Whit-lah-wíd-deh set the boy on the top of the pile and lighted it.
Who acts: wíd deh · What happens: set, light · To what, where: boy, top
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 (wíd deh), 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 | 10 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 deh | det |
| 3 | Whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lah | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Whit | punct |
| 5 | lah | lah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wíd | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 lah | punct |
| 7 | wíd | wíd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deh | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 wíd | punct |
| 9 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | nsubj |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 top | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 top | det |
| 15 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 pile | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pile | det |
| 18 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 top | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lighted | cc |
| 20 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 set | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lighted | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | the wíd deh | the boy | the top of the pile | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme on top=Destination | ||
| 2 | light | participle | the wíd deh not said here | top | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
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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