The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 92

After awhile he came to a good lake; and as he sat down to eat his lunch the fish in his gourd said:

Who acts: boy · What happens: come, sit down, eat, say · To what, where: good lake, lunch, gourd · 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 (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	After	after	ADP	_	2 awhile	case
2	awhile	awhile	ADV	_	4 came	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 said	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 lake	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lake	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lake	amod
8	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 sat	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 sat	compound:prt
15	to	to	PART	_	16 eat	mark
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sat	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 lunch	nmod:poss
18	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eat	obj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fish	det
20	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eat	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 gourd	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 gourd	nmod:poss
23	gourd	gourd	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eat	obl
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	boy		a good lake		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location
2	sit down	past	boy				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	to-infinitive	boy not said here	boy's lunch	boy's gourd	the fish obj	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 92

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 92