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title: At last the Lake-Man, who was of an evil heart, pretended to show th… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: At last the Lake-Man, who was of an evil heart, pretended to show the Hunter something in the east room; and pushing him in, locked the great door and left him there to starve--for the room was full of the bones of men whom he had already entrapped in the same way. Who acts: Lake Man, pushing, room,
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 35

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At last the Lake-Man, who was of an evil heart, pretended to show the Hunter something in the east room; and pushing him in, locked the great door and left him there to starve--for the room was full of the bones of men whom he had already entrapped in the same way.

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**Who acts:** Lake Man, pushing, room, As · **What happens:** be, pretend, show, push, lock, leave · **To what, where:** evil heart, something, As, great door, last, men

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This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lake Man, pushing, room, As), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:19:36
# text = At last the Lake-Man, who was of an evil heart, pretended to show the Hunter something in the east room; and pushing him in, locked the great door and left him there to starve--for the room was full of the bones of men whom he had already entrapped in the same way.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	csubj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
31	locked	lock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	starve	starve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
46	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	advcl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	_
52	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	56	obl	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
54	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	already	already	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	entrapped	entrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	51	acl:relcl	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Lake Man |  |  |  |  | of a evil heart | tree rules |
| 2 | **pretend** | participle |  | a evil heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **show** | to-infinitive |  | something |  |  |  | in the east room | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent something=Patient in room=Topic |
| 4 | **push** | gerund |  | As |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **lock** | past | pushing | the great door |  | last  the Lake Man |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 6 | **leave** | past | pushing *not said here* | As |  | there |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 7 | **starve** | to-infinitive | pushing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | past | the room |  |  |  |  | of the bones of men; full *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **entrap** | past · perfect | As | men |  | the same way |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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