The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 74
In the very center of it they came to a deep _pozo_--a square well, with steps at one side leading down to the water’s edge.
Who acts: women, steps · What happens: come, lead down · To what, where: center
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 (women, steps), 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 | _ | 4 center | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 center | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 center | advmod |
| 4 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 center | nmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 pozo | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pozo | det |
| 11 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pozo | amod |
| 12 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pozo | compound |
| 13 | pozo | pozo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 pozo | punct |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 square | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 square | det |
| 17 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pozo | conj |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 square | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 steps | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 steps | case |
| 21 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | parataxis |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 side | nummod |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 steps | nmod |
| 25 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 steps | acl |
| 26 | down | down | ADV | _ | 25 leading | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 edge | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 water | det |
| 29 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 edge | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 water | case |
| 31 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 leading | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | women = woman | the center of center | to a deep _ pozo and a square; steps at one side parataxis | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pozo=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | lead down | gerund | steps at one side not said here | to the water's edge; down property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to edge=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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