The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 18
When he had entered the lake, he came to a house with doors to the east, north, west, and south, and a trap-door in the roof, with a ladder; and by the latter door they entered.
Who acts: human, lakes · What happens: enter, come · To what, where: lake, trap door, house
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 (human, lakes), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 entered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 entered | aux |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lake | det |
| 6 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 doors | case |
| 14 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 east | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 east | det |
| 17 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 west | punct |
| 19 | north | north | ADV | _ | 21 west | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 west | punct |
| 21 | west | west | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 south | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 south | cc |
| 24 | south | south | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 door | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 door | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 door | det |
| 28 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 door | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 trap | punct |
| 30 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 roof | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 roof | det |
| 33 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 door | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 ladder | punct |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 ladder | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 ladder | det |
| 37 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 door | conj |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 entered | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 entered | cc |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 door | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 door | det |
| 42 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 door | amod |
| 43 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 entered | obl |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 entered | nsubj |
| 45 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past · perfect | human | the lake | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lake=Destination | ||||
| 2 | come | past | human | a trap door in the roof and a ladder | a house | with doors; to the east; south, west property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location to east=Destination | ||
| 3 | enter | past | lakes = lake | by the latter door | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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