The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 54

Still doubting, Ees-tée-ah Muts took the cup and ate of the blue corn-meal until he could eat no longer, and yet the acorn-cup was not empty.

Who acts: Ees, acorn cup · What happens: doubt, take, eat, not be · To what, where: cup

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 (Ees, acorn cup), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	2 doubting	advmod
2	doubting	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 took	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 doubting	punct
4	Ees	Ees	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 took	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Ees	punct
6	tée	tée	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Ees	list
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 ah	punct
8	ah	ah	INTJ	_	10 took	discourse
9	Muts	mut	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cup	det
12	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ate	cc
14	ate	ate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cup	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	20 meal	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 meal	det
17	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 meal	amod
18	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 meal	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 corn	punct
20	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ate	nmod
21	until	until	SCONJ	_	24 eat	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 eat	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 eat	aux
24	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 took	advcl
25	no	no	ADV	_	26 longer	advmod
26	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 eat	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 empty	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 empty	cc
29	yet	yet	ADV	_	36 empty	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cup	det
31	acorn	acorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cup	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 acorn	punct
33	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 empty	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 empty	cop
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 empty	advmod
36	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 took	parataxis
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	doubt	gerund	Ees tée not said here		still		vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	Ees tée	the cup and ate of the blue corn meal		Muts nsubj	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme
3	eat	could	Ees			long property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not is	past	the acorn cup		yet	empty property	tree rules

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 54

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 54