The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 87

It seems as though the hot winds of the Southwest had dried him as they dry the forgotten last year’s apples that shrivel here and there upon lonely boughs.

Who acts: It, men, apples · What happens: seem, dry, forget, shrivel, wind · To what, where: hot winds, apples, Southwest

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 (It, men, apples), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seems	nsubj
2	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	2 seems	advmod
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 dried	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 winds	det
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 winds	amod
7	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dried	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Southwest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Southwest	det
10	Southwest	Southwest	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 winds	nmod
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dried	aux
12	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 seems	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dried	obj
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 dry	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dry	nsubj
16	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 seems	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 year	det
18	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 year	amod
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 year	amod
20	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 apples	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 year	case
22	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 dry	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 shrivel	nsubj
24	shrivel	shrivel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 apples	acl:relcl
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 shrivel	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 there	cc
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 here	conj
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 boughs	case
29	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 boughs	amod
30	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shrivel	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	present	It				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	dry	past · perfect · passive		the hot winds of the Southwest		host obj	tree rules
3	dry	present	men = man	the forgotten last year's apples			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient apple=Result
4	forget	participle					tree rules
5	shrivel	present	the forgotten last year's apples		here; there	upon lonely boughs	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	wind			the Southwest			nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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 87

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 87