The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 13
As he stood on the bank, wondering what to do, a fish thrust its head from the water and said:
Who acts: trail · What happens: stand, wonder, do, say · To what, where: bank, fish thrust, water · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (trail), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 stood | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | advcl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 bank | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bank | det |
| 6 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wondering | punct |
| 8 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stood | advcl |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 do | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wondering | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thrust | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 thrust | det |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thrust | compound |
| 15 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obl |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | trail | the bank | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | trail not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | a fish thrust | the water | what obj; thrust's head obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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