The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 15
Before the Hunter could recover from his surprise, a Lake-Man came up out of the water and said:
Who acts: Hunter, Lake Man, trail · What happens: recover, come up, say, surprise · To what, where: surprise, 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 (Hunter, Lake Man, 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 recover | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hunter | det |
| 3 | Hunter | Hunter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 recover | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 recover | aux |
| 5 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | advcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 surprise | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 8 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 recover | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Man | det |
| 11 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Man | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Lake | punct |
| 13 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 water | det |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | could | the Hunter | trail's surprise | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from surprise=Source | ||||
| 2 | come up | past | a Lake Man | the water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out water=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | surprise | trail | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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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