The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 67

Desiderio put his face and his wrinkles down to the hole to see what he could see; and all was dark inside.

Who acts: Desiderio, all · What happens: put, see, be · To what, where: face · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Desiderio, all), 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	Desiderio	Desiderio	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 face	nmod:poss
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wrinkles	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wrinkles	nmod:poss
7	wrinkles	wrinkle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 face	conj
8	down	down	ADV	_	11 hole	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 hole	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hole	det
11	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hole	acl
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 see	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 see	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 dark	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dark	cc
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 dark	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dark	cop
22	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 put	conj
23	inside	inside	ADV	_	22 dark	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	put	past	Desiderio	Desiderio's face and Desiderio's wrinkles	the hole obj	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent face=Asset hole=Goal
2	see	to-infinitive	Desiderio not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	see	could	Desiderio		what obj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	is	past	all		dark, inside property	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 Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 67

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 67