The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 30
Isleta lies on the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, upon the western bank of the Rio Grande, on a lava promontory which was once an island--whence the town takes its Spanish name.
Who acts: Isleta, lava promontory, town · What happens: lie, be, take, name · To what, where: Atlantic, island, Spanish name
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 (Isleta, lava promontory, town), 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 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lies | nsubj |
| 2 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 Atlantic | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Atlantic | det |
| 5 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lies | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Pacific | cc |
| 7 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Atlantic | conj |
| 8 | Railroad | Railroad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Pacific | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bank | punct |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 bank | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bank | det |
| 12 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bank | amod |
| 13 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lies | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Grande | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Grande | det |
| 16 | Rio | Rio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Grande | compound |
| 17 | Grande | Grande | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 bank | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 promontory | punct |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 promontory | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 promontory | det |
| 21 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 promontory | compound |
| 22 | promontory | promontory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lies | parataxis |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 island | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 island | cop |
| 25 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 27 island | advmod |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 island | det |
| 27 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 promontory | parataxis |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 takes | punct |
| 29 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 takes | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 town | det |
| 31 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 takes | nsubj |
| 32 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 island | parataxis |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 name | nmod:poss |
| 34 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 name | amod |
| 35 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 takes | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | Isleta | the Atlantic and Pacific | upon the western bank of the Rio Grande; a lava promontory parataxis | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on atlantic=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | a lava promontory | a island | once property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take | present | the town | town's Spanish name | whence property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | |||
| 4 | name | town | nom name «communication transitive»: 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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