The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 1
AWAY to the southeast of the Manzano Mountains, two days’ journey from my pueblo of Isleta, are the shallow salt lakes.
Who acts: two days · What happens: be, journey · To what, where: AWAY shallow salt lakes, pueblo
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two days), 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 | AWAY | away | ADV | _ | 24 lakes | amod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 southeast | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 southeast | det |
| 4 | southeast | southeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 AWAY | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Mountains | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Mountains | det |
| 7 | Manzano | Manzano | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mountains | compound |
| 8 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 southeast | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 journey | punct |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 days | nummod |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 journey | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 11 days | case |
| 13 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Mountains | appos |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 pueblo | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 pueblo | nmod:poss |
| 16 | pueblo | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 journey | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Isleta | case |
| 18 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 pueblo | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 AWAY | punct |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 lakes | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lakes | det |
| 22 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lakes | amod |
| 23 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lakes | compound |
| 24 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 lakes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the AWAY shallow salt lakes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | journey | two days | my pueblo of Isleta | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent from=place |
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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