The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 20

Besides the cities now inhabited, the ruins of about fifteen hundred other pueblos--and some of them the noblest ruins in the country--dot the brown valleys and rocky mesa-tops of New Mexico.

Who acts: some, dot · What happens: inhabit, ruin, valley · To what, where: cities, country, hundred other pueblos

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some, dot), 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	Besides	besides	ADP	_	3 cities	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cities	det
3	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 inhabited	advmod
5	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cities	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ruins	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ruins	det
8	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cities	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	14 pueblos	case
10	about	about	ADV	_	12 hundred	advmod
11	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 hundred	compound
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 pueblos	nummod
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pueblos	amod
14	pueblos	pueblo	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ruins	nmod
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 ruins	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ruins	cc
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 ruins	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 some	nmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ruins	det
21	noblest	noble	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 ruins	amod
22	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cities	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 country	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 country	det
25	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ruins	nmod
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 valleys	punct
27	dot	dot	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 valleys	nsubj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 valleys	det
29	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 valleys	amod
30	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cities	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 tops	cc
32	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 tops	amod
33	mesa	mesa	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tops	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 mesa	punct
35	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cities	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 Mexico	case
37	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Mexico	compound
38	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 tops	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cities	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	inhabit	participle		the cities and the ruins of hundred other pueblos and the noblest ruins and the brown valleys and rocky mesa tops of New Mexico not said here		now	tree rules
2	ruin		some of pueblos		the country		tree rules
3	valley		dot				tree rules
5	ruin			hundred other pueblos			nom ruin «state 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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 20