The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 86

So the sacred ice was given him, and he started homeward--stopping on the way only to thank the Old-Woman-Mole, to whose aid he owed his success.

Who acts: boy · What happens: give, start, stop, thank, owe · To what, where: sacred ice, boy, homeward, way, Old Woman Mole, success

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 (boy), 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	_	6 given	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ice	det
3	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ice	amod
4	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 given	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 given	aux:pass
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 given	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 started	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 started	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 started	nsubj
11	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 given	conj
12	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 started	obj
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 stopping	punct
14	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 started	advcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 way	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stopping	obl
18	only	only	ADV	_	20 thank	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 thank	mark
20	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 stopping	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Mole	det
22	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Mole	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 Old	punct
24	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Mole	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Woman	punct
26	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thank	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 aid	punct
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 aid	case
29	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	30 aid	nmod:poss
30	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thank	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 owed	nsubj
32	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 aid	acl:relcl
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 success	nmod:poss
34	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 owed	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		the sacred ice	boy			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme
2	start	past	boy	homeward				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=Eventuality
3	stop	gerund	boy not said here			the way		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	thank speech: thank	to-infinitive	boy not said here	the Old Woman Mole			to aid	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mole=Theme
5	owe	past	boy	boy's success				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent success=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 86

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 86