The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 9
Long ago there was still a village east of Shoo-paht-hóo-eh, the Eagle-Feather (Manzano) Mountains, and in it lived a famous hunter.
Who acts: village east, Mountains · What happens: be, live · To what, where: famous hunter, Feather
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 (village east, Mountains), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 ago | advmod |
| 2 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 was | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 east | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 east | det |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 east | compound |
| 8 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 eh | case |
| 10 | Shoo | Shoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 eh | nsubj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Shoo | punct |
| 12 | paht | paht | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eh | nsubj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 paht | punct |
| 14 | hóo | hóo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eh | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 eh | punct |
| 16 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 east | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Feather | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Feather | det |
| 19 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Feather | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Eagle | punct |
| 21 | Feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Mountains | nsubj |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 Manzano | punct |
| 23 | Manzano | Manzano | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Feather | appos |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 Manzano | punct |
| 25 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 eh | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 lived | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 lived | cc |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 lived | obl |
| 30 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 Mountains | acl:relcl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 hunter | det |
| 32 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 hunter | amod |
| 33 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lived | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a village east of hóo eh Shoo paht Mountains the Eagle Feather | there | ago property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past | Mountains the Eagle Feather not said here | a famous hunter | Feather | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hunter=Location |
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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