The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 91

“_Ah-bóo_ [poor thing], little fish,” said the boy; and picking it up, he put it in his gourd canteen of water.

Who acts: bóo, boy · What happens: say, pick up, put · To what, where: fish, gourd canteen · 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 (bóo, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
2	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 bóo	punct
3	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 bóo	discourse
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 bóo	punct
5	bóo	bóo	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 bóo	punct
7	[	[	PUNCT	_	9 thing	punct
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bóo	appos
10	]	]	PUNCT	_	9 thing	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fish	punct
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fish	amod
13	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bóo	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bóo	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 bóo	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boy	det
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 put	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 put	cc
21	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 put	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 picking	obj
23	up	up	ADP	_	21 picking	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 picking	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 put	nsubj
26	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 put	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 canteen	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 canteen	nmod:poss
30	gourd	gourd	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 canteen	compound
31	canteen	canteen	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 water	case
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 canteen	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	bóo and little fish			the boy nsubj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	pick up	gerund	boy not said here	fish			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	put	past	boy	fish	boy's gourd canteen of water		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in canteen=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 91

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 91