The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 58

There was a door in front of them, and beside it stood a Cum-pah-whit-lah-wíd-deh (guard), who said to Agostin--for the little bird had disappeared:

Who acts: door, wíd deh, little bird · What happens: be, stand, say, disappear · To what, where: front, Cum pah, Agostin · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (door, wíd deh, little bird), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stood	parataxis
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 front	case
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 front	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stood	cc
11	beside	beside	ADP	_	13 stood	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stood	nsubj
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pah	det
15	Cum	cum	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pah	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Cum	punct
17	pah	pah	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obj
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 pah	punct
19	whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pah	conj
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 lah	punct
21	lah	lah	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 whit	appos
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 wíd	punct
23	wíd	wíd	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 deh	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 deh	punct
25	deh	deh	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lah	appos
26	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 guard	punct
27	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 deh	appos
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 guard	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 said	nsubj
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 deh	parataxis
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 Agostin	case
33	Agostin	Agostin	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 said	obl
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 disappeared	punct
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	40 disappeared	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 bird	det
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 bird	amod
38	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 disappeared	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 disappeared	aux
40	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 said	conj
41	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	a door			front of words; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location
2	stand	past	door	a Cum pah and whit			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pah=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	wíd deh		Agostin		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to agostin=Recipient
4	disappear	past · perfect	the little bird				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 58