The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 43

When the Mountain Lion said, “And thou, T’hoo-chée-deh--hast thou a cure?” he rose in his place and came forward modestly, saying: “If the others will allow me, and with the help of the Trues, I will try what I found last.”

Who acts: Mountain Lion, thou, deh, others · What happens: say, have, rise, come forward, allow, try · To what, where: thou, place, deh, Trues · 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, Doctor Field-mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mountain Lion, thou, deh, others), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Lion	det
3	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Lion	compound
4	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 rose	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 thou	punct
8	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 thou	cc
9	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 hast	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 deh	punct
11	T’hoo	T'hoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 deh	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 T’hoo	punct
13	chée	chée	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 deh	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 chée	punct
15	deh	deh	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thou	conj
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 hast	punct
17	hast	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
18	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 hast	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 cure	det
20	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hast	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 rose	nsubj
24	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 place	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 place	nmod:poss
27	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rose	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 came	cc
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 rose	conj
30	forward	forward	ADV	_	29 came	advmod
31	modestly	modestly	ADV	_	29 came	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 saying	punct
33	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 came	advcl
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	40 allow	punct
35	“	"	PUNCT	_	40 allow	punct
36	If	if	SCONJ	_	40 allow	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 others	det
38	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 allow	nsubj
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 allow	aux
40	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 saying	ccomp
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 allow	iobj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 try	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 try	cc
44	with	with	ADP	_	46 help	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 help	det
46	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 try	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 Trues	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Trues	det
49	Trues	True	PROPN	Number=Plur	46 help	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 help	punct
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 try	nsubj
52	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 try	aux
53	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 allow	parataxis
54	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	56 found	obj
55	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 found	nsubj
56	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 try	ccomp
57	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 found	xcomp
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 rose	punct
59	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	the Mountain Lion					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present	thou T’hoo chée deh	thou			a cure obj	tree rules
3	rise	past	deh			deh's place		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location
4	come forward	past	deh not said here				forward, modestly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	gerund	deh not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	allow a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	the others		deh			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
7	try in a quote	future	deh				with the help of the Trues	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	find in a quote	past	deh				what obj; last property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
9	help in a quote			the Trues				nom help «act transitive»: of=patient

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, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 43