The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 87

When the wicked Lake-Man saw the boy coming, he was very angry, for he had never expected him to return from that dangerous mission.

Who acts: wicked Lake Man, boy · What happens: see, come, be, not expect, return · To what, where: boy, dangerous mission

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 (wicked Lake Man, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Man	det
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Man	amod
4	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Man	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Lake	punct
6	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
10	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 boy	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 angry	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 angry	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 angry	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 angry	advmod
15	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 saw	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 expected	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 expected	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 expected	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 expected	aux
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 expected	advmod
21	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 saw	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 expected	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 return	mark
24	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 expected	xcomp
25	from	from	ADP	_	28 mission	case
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 mission	det
27	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 mission	amod
28	mission	mission	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 return	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the wicked Lake Man	the boy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
2	come	gerund	the boy not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	boy			angry property	tree rules
4	not expect	past · perfect · passive		boy		ice obj	tree rules
5	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy not said here		that dangerous mission		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mission=Initial_Location

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 87

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 87