The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 38
By this time a long file of girls was coming to Nah-chu-rú-chu’s house, outside whose door hung the pearl _omate_.
Who acts: long file, door · What happens: come, hang, file · To what, where: rú chu house, pearl, girls
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 (long file, door), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 coming | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 file | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 file | amod |
| 6 | file | file | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 coming | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 girls | case |
| 8 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 file | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 coming | aux |
| 10 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 12 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 20 house | discourse |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Nah | punct |
| 14 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rú | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 chu | punct |
| 16 | rú | rú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 house | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 chu | punct |
| 18 | chu | chu | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 house | amod |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 chu | case |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 coming | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hung | punct |
| 22 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 25 hung | advmod |
| 23 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 24 door | nmod:poss |
| 24 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hung | nsubj |
| 25 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 coming | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pearl | det |
| 27 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hung | obj |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 omate | punct |
| 29 | omate | omate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hung | xcomp |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 omate | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · progressive | a long file of girls | rú chu house | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | hang | past | door | the pearl | omate, outside property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Patient | |||
| 3 | file | girls | nom file «communication 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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