The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 37

But next morning when Ees-tée-ah Muts awoke he was not in his own home at all, but lying on a tiny shelf far up a dizzy cliff.

Who acts: Muts, frog · What happens: awake, not be, lie · To what, where: Ees tée, own home, tiny shelf, next morning

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Sobbing Pine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Muts, frog), 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 morning	cc
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 tée	advmod
5	Ees	Ees	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tée	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Ees	punct
7	tée	tée	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 morning	nmod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 awoke	punct
9	ah	ah	INTJ	_	11 awoke	discourse
10	Muts	mut	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 awoke	nsubj
11	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tée	acl:relcl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 home	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 home	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 home	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 home	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 home	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 home	amod
18	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 awoke	ccomp
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 home	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cliff	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 cliff	cc
23	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 cliff	csubj
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 shelf	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 shelf	det
26	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 shelf	amod
27	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lying	obl
28	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 cliff	advmod
29	up	up	ADP	_	32 cliff	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 cliff	det
31	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cliff	amod
32	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 awoke	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	awake	past	Muts	Ees tée not said here		up a dizzy cliff	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tée=Theme
2	not is	past	frog		frog's own home	at all	tree rules
3	lie	gerund			a tiny shelf		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shelf=Location

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 Sobbing Pine, sentence 37

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 37