The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 58

Ees-tée-ah Muts lay on the narrow ledge as patiently as he could, sleeping sometimes and sometimes thinking of his strange plight.

Who acts: Muts, cone · What happens: lay, sleep, think, plight · To what, where: tée, narrow ledge, Ees

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, cone), 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	Ees	ee	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 tée	punct
3	tée	tée	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ees	appos
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct
5	ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 lay	discourse
6	Muts	mut	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lay	nsubj
7	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tée	acl:relcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 ledge	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ledge	det
10	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ledge	amod
11	ledge	ledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 patiently	advmod
13	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	7 lay	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 could	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 could	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 patiently	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sleeping	punct
18	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lay	advcl
19	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 thinking	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 thinking	cc
21	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 thinking	advmod
22	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 sleeping	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 plight	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 plight	nmod:poss
25	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 plight	amod
26	plight	plight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thinking	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ees	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	present	Muts	tée not said here	the narrow ledge	patiently property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tée=Theme on ledge=Destination
2	sleep	gerund	Muts not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	gerund	Muts not said here			of cone's strange plight; sometimes property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	plight		cone				nom plight «state transitive»: poss=agent

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 58

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 58