The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 18
We are huddled around the fireplace in the corner of the big, pleasant room, against whose dark rafters and farther white walls the shadows dance and waver.
What happens: huddle · To what, where: We, fireplace
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-seek. 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 huddled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 huddled | aux:pass |
| 3 | huddled | huddle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 6 fireplace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fireplace | det |
| 6 | fireplace | fireplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 huddled | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 corner | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 corner | det |
| 9 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 huddled | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 room | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 room | det |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 room | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 big | punct |
| 14 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 room | amod |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 corner | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rafters | punct |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 20 rafters | case |
| 18 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 20 rafters | nmod:poss |
| 19 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rafters | amod |
| 20 | rafters | rafter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 huddled | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 walls | cc |
| 22 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 walls | amod |
| 23 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 walls | amod |
| 24 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rafters | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 dance | det |
| 26 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 dance | compound |
| 27 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 walls | appos |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 waver | cc |
| 29 | waver | waver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dance | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 huddled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | huddle | present · passive | We | the fireplace | in the corner of the big pleasant room; dark rafters and farther white walls conj | tree rules |
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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