The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 71
But just then the Old-Woman-Mole, who had followed him underground all this way, dug a hole up to his very toes; and the smoke went down through his feet into the hole, and away back to the Old-Woman-Mole’s house, where it poured out in a great cloud.
Who acts: Old Woman Mole, smoke · What happens: follow, dig up, go down, pour out · To what, where: Old Woman Mole, hole, house, feet, great cloud
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 (Old Woman Mole, smoke), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 Mole | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 Mole | advmod |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 Mole | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Mole | det |
| 5 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Mole | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Old | punct |
| 7 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Mole | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Woman | punct |
| 9 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dug | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 followed | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 followed | aux |
| 13 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Mole | acl:relcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 followed | obj |
| 15 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 13 followed | advmod |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 way | det:predet |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 followed | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Mole | punct |
| 20 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 hole | det |
| 22 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dug | obj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 dug | compound:prt |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 toes | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 toes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 toes | advmod |
| 27 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 dug | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 went | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 went | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 smoke | det |
| 31 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | nsubj |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 dug | conj |
| 33 | down | down | ADV | _ | 32 went | advmod |
| 34 | through | through | ADP | _ | 36 feet | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 feet | nmod:poss |
| 36 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 went | obl |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 hole | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 hole | det |
| 39 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 away | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 away | cc |
| 42 | away | away | ADV | _ | 32 went | advmod |
| 43 | back | back | ADV | _ | 42 away | advmod |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 Woman | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Woman | det |
| 46 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 Woman | amod |
| 47 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 Old | punct |
| 48 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 away | obl |
| 49 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 away | punct |
| 50 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 house | nmod:poss |
| 51 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 50 Mole | case |
| 52 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | obl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 poured | punct |
| 54 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 56 poured | advmod |
| 55 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 poured | nsubj |
| 56 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 house | acl:relcl |
| 57 | out | out | ADP | _ | 56 poured | compound:prt |
| 58 | in | in | ADP | _ | 61 cloud | case |
| 59 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 61 cloud | det |
| 60 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 cloud | amod |
| 61 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 poured | obl |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past · perfect · passive | the Old Woman Mole | all way obl:unmarked; boy obj; underground property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme he=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | dig up | past | the Old Woman Mole | a hole | to boy's toes | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | |||
| 3 | go down | past | the smoke | Mole's house | boy's feet | into the hole; away, down property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through foot=Location | ||
| 4 | pour out | past | smoke | a great cloud | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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