The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 71

But immediately, as the boys had planned, the green wood began to smoke at a dreadful rate, and soon the room was so dense with it that they all began to cough and strangle.

Who acts: green wood, room, boys · What happens: plan, begin, smoke, be, cough, strangle · To what, where: boys, dreadful rate

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hero Twins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (green wood, room, boys), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 planned	cc
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	8 planned	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 immediately	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 planned	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boys	det
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 planned	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 planned	aux
8	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wood	det
11	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wood	amod
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 planned	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 smoke	mark
15	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 rate	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 rate	det
18	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rate	amod
19	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 smoke	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dense	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dense	cc
22	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 dense	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 room	det
24	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dense	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dense	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 dense	advmod
27	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 began	parataxis
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 dense	obl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 began	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 began	nsubj
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 they	det
33	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dense	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 cough	mark
35	cough	cough	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 began	xcomp
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 strangle	cc
37	strangle	strangle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 cough	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 planned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	plan	past · perfect · passive		the boys		immediately property	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	begin	past	the green wood				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	smoke	to-infinitive	the green wood not said here		a dreadful rate		vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the room			with rate; dense, soon property	tree rules
5	begin	past	boys = boy				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	cough	to-infinitive	boys = boy not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	strangle	infinitive	boys = boy not said here				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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 Hero Twins, sentence 71

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 71