The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 38

To jump was certain death, for it was a thousand feet to the ground; and climb he could not, for the smooth rock rose a thousand feet above his head.

Who acts: death, smooth rock · What happens: jump, be, climb, rise · To what, where: certain death, thousand feet, head

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 (death, smooth rock), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 jump	mark
2	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 certain	cop
4	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 death	amod
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jump	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 feet	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	12 feet	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 feet	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 feet	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 feet	det
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 feet	nummod
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 jump	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 ground	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feet	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 climb	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 climb	cc
18	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 jump	advcl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 could	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 climb	advmod
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 could	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 rose	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 rose	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rock	det
25	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 rock	amod
26	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rose	nsubj
27	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 climb	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 thousand	det
29	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 feet	nummod
30	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 rose	obj
31	above	above	ADP	_	33 head	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rose	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 jump	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	jump	to-infinitive		certain death			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme death=Trajectory
2	is	past				certain property	tree rules
3	is	past	death			for a thousand feet; to the ground	tree rules
4	climb	present					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	rise	past	the smooth rock	thousand feet	frog's head		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foot=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 man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 38

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 38