The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 33
It is nearly surrounded by fertile vineyards, orchards of peaches, apricots, apples, cherries, plums, pears, and quinces, and fields of corn, wheat, beans, and peppers, all owned by my dusky neighbors.
Who acts: fertile vineyards, dusky neighbors · What happens: surround, own · To what, where: population, all
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 (fertile vineyards, dusky neighbors), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 3 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 4 surrounded | advmod |
| 4 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 vineyards | case |
| 6 | fertile | fertile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 vineyards | amod |
| 7 | vineyards | vineyard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 orchards | punct |
| 9 | orchards | orchard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 vineyards | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 peaches | case |
| 11 | peaches | peach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 orchards | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 apricots | punct |
| 13 | apricots | apricot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 peaches | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 apples | punct |
| 15 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 vineyards | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cherries | punct |
| 17 | cherries | cherry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 apples | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 plums | punct |
| 19 | plums | plum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 apples | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pears | punct |
| 21 | pears | pear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 vineyards | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 quinces | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 quinces | cc |
| 24 | quinces | quince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 surrounded | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fields | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fields | cc |
| 27 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 surrounded | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 corn | case |
| 29 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fields | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 wheat | punct |
| 31 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 corn | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 beans | punct |
| 33 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 corn | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 peppers | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 peppers | cc |
| 36 | peppers | pepper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 owned | punct |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 owned | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | owned | own | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 peppers | acl |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 neighbors | case |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 42 | dusky | dusky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 neighbors | amod |
| 43 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 owned | obl:agent |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 surrounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | present · passive | fertile vineyards and orchards of peaches and apricots and apples and cherries and plums and pears | population | quinces obl; fields of corn and wheat and beans obl; peppers obl:agent; nearly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | own | participle · passive | my dusky neighbors | all | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme |
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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