The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 104

It began to rain violently, and the water poured down through the roof-door, and the lightning stuck its tongue in.

Who acts: third, water, lightning · What happens: begin, pour down, stick · To what, where: rain, roof door, tongue

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Drowning of Pecos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third, water, lightning), 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 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 rain	mark
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	obj
5	violently	violently	ADV	_	2 began	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 poured	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 poured	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 poured	nsubj
10	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 began	parataxis
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 poured	compound:prt
12	through	through	ADP	_	16 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
14	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 door	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 roof	punct
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 poured	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stuck	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stuck	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lightning	det
20	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stuck	nsubj
21	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 tongue	nmod:poss
23	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stuck	obj
24	in	in	ADV	_	21 stuck	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	third	rain		violently property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Eventuality
2	pour down	participle	the water		the roof door		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through door=Location
3	stick	past	the lightning	third's tongue			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tongue=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 Drowning of Pecos, sentence 104

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 104