The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 118
At last they came in sight of the big lake, and over it were great clouds, with the forked lightning leaping forth.
Who acts: daughters, sight, forked lightning · What happens: come, be, fork, leap, sight · To what, where: last, great clouds, big lake
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 (daughters, sight, forked lightning), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sight | case |
| 6 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 lake | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lake | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lake | amod |
| 10 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sight | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 clouds | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 clouds | cc |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 clouds | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 clouds | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 clouds | cop |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 clouds | amod |
| 17 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lightning | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 lightning | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lightning | det |
| 21 | forked | fork | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 lightning | amod |
| 22 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 clouds | conj |
| 23 | leaping | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 lightning | acl |
| 24 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 23 leaping | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | daughters = daughter | last | in sight of the big lake | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | sight | great clouds and the forked lightning | the forked lightning conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fork | participle | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | leap | gerund | the forked lightning not said here | forth property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sight | the big lake | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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