The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 84

But in the morning, when the guard went out, there was the boy unharmed and saying: “Tell the Trues I am cold, and would like more fire.”

Who acts: guard, I · What happens: go out, be, say, tell, like · To what, where: Trues, more fire · 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 (guard, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 was	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 morning	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 was	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 went	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 guard	det
8	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 morning	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 went	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 unharmed	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 was	nsubj
16	unharmed	unharmed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saying	cc
18	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 unharmed	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 Tell	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Tell	punct
21	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 saying	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Trues	det
23	Trues	true	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 Tell	obj
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 cold	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 cold	cop
26	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Tell	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 like	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 like	cc
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 like	aux
30	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 Tell	conj
31	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 fire	amod
32	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 like	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 Tell	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go out	past	the guard			vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past			unharmed property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		the Trues		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent true=Recipient
5	is in a quote	present	I		cold property	tree rules
6	like in a quote	would		more fire		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fire=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 84

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 84