The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 131

Eccentric actions also lay one open to accusation; and when I first came here I was dangerously near being classed with the witches because, to amuse my dusky little neighbors, I imitated various animal cries to their great edification, but to the very serious doubt of their elders.

Who acts: Eccentric actions, I, various animal, animals · What happens: lie, come, class, amuse, imitate, cry · To what, where: one, I, dusky little neighbors, great edification, elders

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 (Eccentric actions, I, various animal, animals), 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	Eccentric	eccentric	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 actions	compound
2	actions	action	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lay	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 lay	obj
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 accusation	case
8	accusation	accusation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 open	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 classed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 classed	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 came	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 came	advmod
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 classed	advcl
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 came	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 classed	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 classed	aux:pass
18	dangerously	dangerously	ADV	_	21 classed	advmod
19	near	near	ADP	_	21 classed	mark
20	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 classed	aux:pass
21	classed	class	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lay	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 witches	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 witches	det
24	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 classed	obl
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 amuse	mark
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 amuse	punct
27	to	to	PART	_	28 amuse	mark
28	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 classed	advcl
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 neighbors	nmod:poss
30	dusky	dusky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 neighbors	amod
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 neighbors	amod
32	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 amuse	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 imitated	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 imitated	nsubj
35	imitated	imitate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	conj
36	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 animal	amod
37	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 cries	nsubj
38	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 imitated	ccomp
39	to	to	ADP	_	42 edification	case
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 edification	nmod:poss
41	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 edification	amod
42	edification	edification	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 cries	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 doubt	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	49 doubt	cc
45	to	to	ADP	_	49 doubt	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 doubt	det
47	very	very	ADV	_	48 serious	advmod
48	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 doubt	amod
49	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 elders	case
51	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 elders	nmod:poss
52	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 doubt	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Eccentric actions	one			to the serious doubt of animals's elders	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
2	come	past	I			here	first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	class	past · passive		I			with the witches; dangerously property	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	amuse	to-infinitive		my dusky little neighbors				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus neighbor=Experiencer
5	imitate	past	I					tree rules
6	cry speech: express	present	various animal		animals's great edification			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to edification=Recipient
7	edify		animals = animal					nom edification «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
8	doubt			animals's elders				nom doubt «cognition 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 Drowning of Pecos, sentence 131