The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 63

But when Agostin entered the inner room, which was so large that no end could be seen, he found himself in the presence of the Trues in human shape.

Who acts: Agostin, inner room, southeast · What happens: enter, be, see, find · To what, where: inner room, end, southeast, presence

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 (Agostin, inner room, southeast), 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	_	21 found	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 entered	advmod
3	Agostin	Agostin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 entered	nsubj
4	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 found	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
6	inner	inner	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 room	amod
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 large	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 large	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 large	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 large	advmod
12	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 room	amod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 seen	mark
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 end	det
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seen	nsubj:pass
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 seen	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 seen	aux:pass
18	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 large	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 entered	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 found	nsubj
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 found	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 presence	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 presence	det
25	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 found	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 Trues	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Trues	det
28	Trues	true	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 presence	nmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 shape	case
30	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 shape	amod
31	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Trues	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	past	Agostin	the inner room			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
2	is	past	the inner room			large property	tree rules
3	see	could · passive		no end			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	find	past	southeast	southeast	the presence of the Trues in human shape		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic

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 63

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 63