The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 88

It kept raining violently, however, and the water came pouring down the chimney until the room was nearly full, and they were in great danger of drowning.

Who acts: thunder, water, room, lightnings · What happens: keep, rain, come, pour down, be · To what, where: chimney, great danger

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 (thunder, water, room, lightnings), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	raining	rain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	violently	violently	ADV	_	3 raining	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 however	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	3 raining	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	conj
12	pouring	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 came	xcomp
13	down	down	ADP	_	15 chimney	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 chimney	det
15	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pouring	obl
16	until	until	SCONJ	_	21 full	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 room	det
18	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 full	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 full	cop
20	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	21 full	advmod
21	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pouring	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 danger	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 danger	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 danger	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 danger	cop
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 danger	case
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 danger	amod
28	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 drowning	case
30	drowning	drowning	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 danger	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	thunder				tree rules
2	rain	gerund	thunder not said here			however, violently property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3	come	past	the water				tree rules
4	pour down	gerund	the water not said here	the chimney			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chimney=Patient
5	is	past	the room			full, nearly property	tree rules
6	is	past	lightnings = lightning		great danger	of drowning	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 Hero Twins, sentence 88

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 88