The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 62

By the evening of the fourth day the magic pine towered far above his head, and it was so close to the cliff that he could touch it from his shelf.

Who acts: magic pine, head, pine · What happens: tower, be, touch · To what, where: head, shelf

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 (magic pine, head, pine), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 towered	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 evening	nmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pine	det
9	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pine	amod
10	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 towered	nsubj
11	towered	tower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 head	advmod
13	above	above	ADP	_	15 head	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 towered	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 close	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 close	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 close	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 close	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 close	advmod
21	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 towered	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 cliff	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cliff	det
24	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 close	obl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 touch	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 touch	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 touch	aux
28	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 close	advcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 touch	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 shelf	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 shelf	nmod:poss
32	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 touch	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 towered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tower	past	the magic pine	pine's head		evening		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme
2	is	past	head				to the cliff; close property	tree rules
3	touch	could	pine	head	pine's shelf			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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 62

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 62