The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 73
In those days there was only a thick forest of cottonwoods where are now the smiling vineyards, and gardens, and orchards of Isleta, and to reach the _llano_ the three women had to go through this forest.
Who acts: thick forest, three women · What happens: be, smile, reach, have, go · To what, where: smiling vineyards, llano, forest
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 (thick forest, three women), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 was | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 forest | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 8 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 forest | amod |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cottonwoods | case |
| 11 | cottonwoods | cottonwood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 forest | nmod |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 vineyards | advmod |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 vineyards | cop |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 vineyards | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 vineyards | det |
| 16 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 vineyards | amod |
| 17 | vineyards | vineyard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cottonwoods | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gardens | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gardens | cc |
| 20 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 vineyards | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 orchards | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 orchards | cc |
| 23 | orchards | orchard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 vineyards | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Isleta | case |
| 25 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 orchards | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 had | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 had | cc |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 reach | mark |
| 29 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 had | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 llano | det |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 llano | punct |
| 32 | llano | llano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 reach | obj |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 reach | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 women | det |
| 35 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 women | nummod |
| 36 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 had | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 was | conj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 go | mark |
| 39 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 had | xcomp |
| 40 | through | through | ADP | _ | 42 forest | case |
| 41 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 forest | det |
| 42 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 go | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a thick forest of cottonwoods | there | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | smile | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | the smiling vineyards and gardens and orchards of Isleta | now | gardens conj; orchards of Isleta conj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | reach | to-infinitive | the three women not said here | the llano | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent llano=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | past | the three women | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | go | to-infinitive | the three women not said here | this forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through forest=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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