The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 111

But she paid no attention to them, and her sons continued their words, and the water kept pouring in until it touched the very ceiling.

Who acts: mother, sons, water, attention · What happens: pay, continue, keep, pour in, touch, word · To what, where: attention, children, words, ceiling

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 (mother, sons, water, attention), 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	_	3 paid	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 paid	nsubj
3	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 attention	det
5	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 paid	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 continued	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 continued	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sons	nmod:poss
11	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 continued	nsubj
12	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paid	parataxis
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 words	nmod:poss
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 continued	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 kept	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 kept	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 water	det
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kept	nsubj
19	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paid	conj
20	pouring	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 kept	xcomp
21	in	in	ADV	_	20 pouring	advmod
22	until	until	SCONJ	_	24 touched	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 touched	nsubj
24	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 pouring	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ceiling	det
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 ceiling	advmod
27	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 touched	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	pay	past	mother	no attention	children = child	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
2	continue	past	mother's sons	sons's words		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3	keep	past	the water			tree rules
4	pour in	gerund	the water not said here			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
5	touch	past	attention	the ceiling		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ceiling=Co-Theme
6	word		sons = son			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 111

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 111