The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 146
The choked earth drank and was glad and green, and the dead crops came to life.
Who acts: choked earth, dead crops · What happens: choke, drink, be, come · To what, where: life
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (choked earth, dead crops), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 earth | det |
| 2 | choked | choke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 earth | amod |
| 3 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drank | nsubj |
| 4 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 glad | cc |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 glad | cop |
| 7 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 drank | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 green | cc |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 glad | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 crops | det |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 crops | amod |
| 14 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drank | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 life | case |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choke | participle | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | drink | past | the choked earth | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the choked earth not said here | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the choked earth not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | come | past | the dead crops | life | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location |
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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