The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 30
[33] The slab of lava which still serves as a hand-mill in Pueblo houses.
Who acts: lava · What happens: serve · To what, where: 33
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 (lava), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 33 | punct |
| 2 | 33 | 33 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 33 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 slab | det |
| 5 | slab | slab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 33 | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lava | case |
| 7 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slab | nmod |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 serves | nsubj |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 serves | advmod |
| 10 | serves | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lava | acl:relcl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 mill | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mill | det |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mill | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 hand | punct |
| 15 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 serves | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 houses | case |
| 17 | Pueblo | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 houses | compound |
| 18 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 serves | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 33 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | present | lava | still | as a hand mill; in Pueblo houses | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in house=Attribute |
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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