The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 26
So he lay down near the hole, and stretched his legs out as if dead, and opened his mouth wide, and was very still.
Who acts: deh · What happens: lie down, stretch out, open, be · To what, where: hole, legs, mouth
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 (deh), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 lay | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 lay | advmod |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 hole | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hole | det |
| 7 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stretched | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stretched | cc |
| 10 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 legs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stretched | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 stretched | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 dead | case |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 dead | mark |
| 16 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stretched | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 opened | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 opened | cc |
| 19 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 opened | obj |
| 22 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mouth | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 still | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 still | cc |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 still | cop |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 still | advmod |
| 27 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 opened | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | deh | the hole | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near hole=Location | |||
| 2 | stretch out | past | deh not said here | deh's legs | as dead; out property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | |||
| 3 | open | past | deh not said here | deh's mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | deh not said here | still property | 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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