The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 94
So he put the fish in the lake; and when he was ready to go on, the fish came to him, and he put it back in his gourd.
Who acts: boy, fish · What happens: put, be, go on, come, put back · To what, where: fish, lake, boy, gourd
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, fish), 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 | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fish | det |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 lake | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lake | det |
| 8 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 ready | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ready | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 ready | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ready | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ready | cop |
| 14 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 put | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ready | xcomp |
| 17 | on | on | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fish | det |
| 20 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 came | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 put | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 put | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 put | nsubj |
| 27 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 put | obj |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 27 put | advmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 gourd | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 gourd | nmod:poss |
| 32 | gourd | gourd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 put | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | boy | the fish | the lake | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fish=Theme in lake=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | boy | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go on | to-infinitive | boy not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | past | the fish | boy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | put back | past | boy | fish | boy's gourd | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in gourd=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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