The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 96

But beyond the third lake began a great forest which stretched clear across the world, and was so dense with thorns and brush that no man could pass it.

Who acts: great forest, man · What happens: begin, stretch, be, brush, pass · To what, where: great forest, world, forest

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 (great forest, man), 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	_	6 began	cc
2	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	5 lake	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lake	det
4	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 lake	amod
5	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	obl
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 forest	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 forest	amod
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	obj
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 stretched	nsubj
11	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 forest	acl:relcl
12	clear	clear	ADV	_	11 stretched	advmod
13	across	across	ADP	_	15 world	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 world	det
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stretched	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dense	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dense	cc
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 dense	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 dense	advmod
20	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 began	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 thorns	case
22	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 dense	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 brush	cc
24	brush	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 began	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 pass	mark
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pass	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 pass	aux
29	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 brush	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pass	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past		a great forest		beyond the third lake	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Eventuality
2	stretch	past	a great forest		the world	clear property	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across world=Location
3	is	past				with thorns; dense property	tree rules
4	brush	present					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pass	could	no man	forest			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory

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 96

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 96