The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 64

Ees-tée-ah Muts seized a branch and swung over into the tree, and letting himself down from bough to bough, at last reached the ground in safety.

Who acts: Ees, last · What happens: seize, swing over, let down, reach · To what, where: branch, tree, friend, bough, ground, safety

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, last), 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	7 seized	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 tée	punct
3	tée	tée	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ees	conj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 seized	punct
5	ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 seized	discourse
6	Muts	mut	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seized	nsubj
7	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 branch	det
9	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seized	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 swung	cc
11	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seized	conj
12	over	over	ADV	_	11 swung	advmod
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 tree	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swung	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 letting	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 letting	cc
18	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 seized	advcl
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 letting	obj
20	down	down	ADP	_	18 letting	compound:prt
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 bough	case
22	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 letting	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 bough	case
24	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 letting	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 reached	punct
26	at	at	SCONJ	_	28 reached	mark
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 reached	nsubj
28	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seized	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ground	det
30	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 reached	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 safety	case
32	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 reached	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	past	Ees and tée	a branch			Muts nsubj	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme
2	swing over	past	Ees and tée not said here			the tree	over property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into tree=Trajectory
3	let down	gerund	Ees and tée not said here	friend	bough		to bough	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to bough=Recipient
4	reach	past	last	the ground		safety		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ground=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 64

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 64