The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 52
[44] A cake of unleavened batter cooked on a hot stone.
What happens: cook · To what, where: unleavened batter, 44
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: 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 44 | punct |
| 2 | 44 | 44 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 44 | punct |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cake | det |
| 5 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 44 | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 batter | case |
| 7 | unleavened | unleavened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 batter | amod |
| 8 | batter | batter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cake | nmod |
| 9 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 batter | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 stone | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stone | det |
| 12 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stone | amod |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cooked | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 44 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | participle | unleavened batter not said here | on a hot stone | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on stone=Instrument |
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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