The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 10
Once Big-ears was coming alone from the farm of his master to Isleta, carrying a load of curd cheeses done up in buckskin bags.
Who acts: Big · What happens: come, carry, do up · To what, where: farm, load, curd cheeses, buckskin bags
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Honest Big-ears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Big), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 6 coming | mark |
| 2 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 coming | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Big | punct |
| 4 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Big | conj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 coming | aux |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 6 coming | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 farm | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 farm | det |
| 10 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coming | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 master | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 master | nmod:poss |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 farm | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Isleta | case |
| 15 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 master | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 carrying | punct |
| 17 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 coming | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 load | det |
| 19 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carrying | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 cheeses | case |
| 21 | curd | curd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cheeses | compound |
| 22 | cheeses | cheese | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 load | nmod |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 cheeses | acl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 done | compound:prt |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 bags | case |
| 26 | buckskin | buckskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bags | compound |
| 27 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 done | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · progressive | Big and ears | the farm of donkey's master to Isleta | alone property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from farm=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | carry | gerund | Big and ears not said here | a load of curd cheeses | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do up | participle | curd cheeses not said here | buckskin bags | vn act-114-1 «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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