The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 42
One day their grandfather, who was a True Believer (in all the ancient rites), caught them in a corner smoking the _weer_.
Who acts: grandfather, One day, corner · What happens: be, catch, smoke · To what, where: True Believer, boys, corner
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Maker of the Thunder-knives. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandfather, One day, corner), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 4 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Believer | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 Believer | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Believer | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Believer | det |
| 9 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Believer | amod |
| 10 | Believer | Believer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grandfather | nmod |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 rites | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 rites | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 rites | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rites | det |
| 15 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rites | amod |
| 16 | rites | rite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Believer | appos |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 rites | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 19 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 caught | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 corner | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 corner | det |
| 23 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 caught | obl |
| 24 | smoking | smoke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 corner | acl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 weer | det |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 weer | punct |
| 27 | weer | wee | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 smoking | xcomp |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 weer | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | boys's grandfather | a True Believer | all ancient rites appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | catch | past | One day boys's grandfather | boys = boy | a corner | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | smoke | gerund | a corner not said here | wee property | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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