The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 73

Certainly neither of us ever dreamed that, thousands of miles from the old New England fireplace, when the dear figures that sat with me before its blazing forestick had long been dust, I would be sitting where I am to-night and listening to the strange, dark people who are around me.

Who acts: neither, dear figures, blazing forestick, I · What happens: dream, sit, blaze, be, listen · To what, where: that, old England fireplace, dust

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neither, dear figures, blazing forestick, I), 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	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	6 dreamed	advmod
2	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	6 dreamed	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 us	case
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 neither	nmod
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 dreamed	advmod
6	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 dreamed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thousands	punct
9	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dreamed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 miles	case
11	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thousands	nmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	17 fireplace	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fireplace	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fireplace	amod
15	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 England	flat
16	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 fireplace	compound
17	fireplace	fireplace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dreamed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 figures	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 figures	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 figures	det
21	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 figures	amod
22	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fireplace	appos
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 sat	nsubj
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 figures	acl:relcl
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 sat	obl
27	before	before	SCONJ	_	34 dust	mark
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 forestick	nmod:poss
29	blazing	blaze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 forestick	amod
30	forestick	forestick	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dust	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 dust	aux
32	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 dust	advmod
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 dust	cop
34	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sat	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sitting	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 sitting	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 sitting	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 sitting	aux
39	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 dreamed	conj
40	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	45 night	advmod
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 night	nsubj
42	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 night	cop
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 night	case
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 to	punct
45	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sitting	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 listening	cc
47	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 sitting	conj
48	to	to	ADP	_	53 people	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 people	det
50	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 people	amod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 strange	punct
52	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 people	amod
53	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 listening	obl
54	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 are	nsubj
55	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 people	acl:relcl
56	around	around	ADP	_	57 me	case
57	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 are	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dreamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dream	past	neither of us	that	the old England fireplace	ever	thousands of miles obl; certainly property	vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic
2	sit	past	the dear figures				with me	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	blaze	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past · perfect	fireplace's blazing forestick	dust			long property	tree rules
5	sit	would · progressive	I					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	I			to night		tree rules
7	listen	gerund	I not said here				to the strange dark people	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to people=Theme

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 Brown Story-tellers, sentence 73

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 73