The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 82
They had a great pile of logs built up (“cob-house” fashion), and the space between filled with pine-knots.
Who acts: Trues, logs · What happens: have, build up, fill · To what, where: great pile, house fashion, space
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 (Trues, logs), 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 | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pile | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pile | amod |
| 5 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 logs | case |
| 7 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pile | nmod |
| 8 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 logs | acl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 built | compound:prt |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 fashion | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 house | punct |
| 12 | cob | cob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 house | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 cob | punct |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fashion | compound |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 house | punct |
| 16 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 built | obl |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 fashion | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 filled | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 filled | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 space | det |
| 21 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | between | between | ADP | _ | 23 filled | case |
| 23 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 knots | case |
| 25 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 knots | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 pine | punct |
| 27 | knots | knot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 filled | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Trues = true | a great pile of logs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pile=Patient | ||||
| 2 | build up | participle | logs not said here | house fashion | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fill | participle · passive | the space | with pine knots | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with knot=Instrument |
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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