The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 88

But he deceived the boy and the woman; and in a few days made a similar excuse to send the boy to the gods of the South after more ice for his mother.

Who acts: boy · What happens: deceive, make, send · To what, where: boy, similar excuse, gods

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 deceived	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 deceived	nsubj
3	deceived	deceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 deceived	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 woman	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boy	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 made	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 days	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 days	det
13	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 days	amod
14	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 made	obl
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 deceived	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 excuse	det
17	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 excuse	amod
18	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 send	mark
20	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 excuse	acl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boy	det
22	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 send	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 gods	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 gods	det
25	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 send	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 South	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 South	det
28	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 gods	nmod
29	after	after	ADP	_	31 ice	case
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 ice	amod
31	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 send	obl
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 mother	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 mother	nmod:poss
34	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 send	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 deceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	deceive	past	boy	the boy and the woman				vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
2	make	past	boy not said here	a similar excuse		day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset excuse=Product
3	send	to-infinitive	boy not said here	the boy	the gods of the South	after more ice	for boy's mother	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme to god=Destination

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 88

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 88