The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 3
They are near the noblest ruins in our North America--the wondrous piles of massive masonry of Abó, Cuaray, and the so-called “Gran Quivira”--the latter the home of the silliest delusion that ever lured treasure-hunters to their death.
Who acts: scores, silliest delusion · What happens: be, call, lure, die · To what, where: noblest ruins, treasure hunters · 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 (scores, silliest delusion), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ruins | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ruins | cop |
| 3 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 ruins | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ruins | det |
| 5 | noblest | noble | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 ruins | amod |
| 6 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 America | case |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 America | nmod:poss |
| 9 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 America | compound |
| 10 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ruins | nmod |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 piles | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 piles | det |
| 13 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 piles | amod |
| 14 | piles | pile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ruins | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 masonry | case |
| 16 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 masonry | amod |
| 17 | masonry | masonry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 piles | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Abó | case |
| 19 | Abó | Abó | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 masonry | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Cuaray | punct |
| 21 | Cuaray | Cuaray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Abó | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 called | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 called | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 called | det |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 called | advmod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 so | punct |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ruins | acl |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Quivira | punct |
| 29 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Quivira | compound |
| 30 | Quivira | Quivira | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 called | xcomp |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Quivira | punct |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 home | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 latter | det |
| 34 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 home | amod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 home | det |
| 36 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Quivira | appos |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 delusion | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 delusion | det |
| 39 | silliest | silly | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 40 delusion | amod |
| 40 | delusion | delusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 home | nmod |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 lured | nsubj |
| 42 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 43 lured | advmod |
| 43 | lured | lure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 delusion | acl:relcl |
| 44 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 hunters | compound |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 treasure | punct |
| 46 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 lured | obj |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 death | case |
| 48 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 death | nmod:poss |
| 49 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 lured | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ruins | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | scores = score | the noblest ruins and the wondrous piles of massive masonry of Abó and Cuaray | in our North America; the wondrous piles of massive masonry of Abó and Cuaray conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | participle | the noblest ruins and the wondrous piles of massive masonry of Abó and Cuaray not said here | Gran Quivira xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lure | participle | the silliest delusion | treasure hunters | ever | to scores's death result | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent hunter=Patient to death=Result | ||
| 4 | die | scores = score | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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