The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 2
For scores of miles their dazzling sheen is visible--a strange patch of silver on the vast brown plains.
Who acts: dazzling sheen · What happens: be, score · To what, where: miles
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 (dazzling sheen), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 scores | case |
| 2 | scores | score | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 visible | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 miles | case |
| 4 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 scores | nmod |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sheen | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dazzling | dazzling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sheen | compound |
| 7 | sheen | sheen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 visible | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 visible | cop |
| 9 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 patch | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 patch | det |
| 12 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 patch | amod |
| 13 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 visible | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 silver | case |
| 15 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 patch | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 plains | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 plains | det |
| 18 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 plains | amod |
| 19 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 plains | amod |
| 20 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 patch | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 visible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | miles's dazzling sheen | for scores of miles; a strange patch of silver on the vast brown plains parataxis; visible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | score | miles | nom score «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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