The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 68
Then, of an evening, if I go over to visit some _vecino_ (neighbor), I am likely to find, in the great adobe living-room, a group of very old men and very young boys gathered about the queer little corner fireplace with its blazing upright sticks.
Who acts: I, group · What happens: go over, visit, be, find, gather · To what, where: vecino, great adobe living room
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 (I, group), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 go | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 evening | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 evening | det |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 evening | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 visit | mark |
| 12 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | advcl |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 vecino | det |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 vecino | punct |
| 15 | vecino | vecino | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 visit | obj |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 neighbor | punct |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 neighbor | punct |
| 18 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 visit | obj |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 neighbor | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 likely | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 likely | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 likely | cop |
| 23 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 go | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 find | mark |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 likely | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 room | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 room | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 room | det |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 room | amod |
| 30 | adobe | adobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 room | compound |
| 31 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 room | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 living | punct |
| 33 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 find | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 group | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 group | det |
| 36 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 gathered | nsubj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 men | case |
| 38 | very | very | ADV | _ | 39 old | advmod |
| 39 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 men | amod |
| 40 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 group | nmod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 boys | cc |
| 42 | very | very | ADV | _ | 43 young | advmod |
| 43 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 boys | amod |
| 44 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 men | conj |
| 45 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 room | acl:relcl |
| 46 | about | about | ADP | _ | 51 fireplace | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 fireplace | det |
| 48 | queer | queer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 fireplace | amod |
| 49 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 fireplace | amod |
| 50 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 fireplace | compound |
| 51 | fireplace | fireplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 gathered | obl |
| 52 | with | with | ADP | _ | 56 sticks | case |
| 53 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 sticks | nmod:poss |
| 54 | blazing | blazing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 sticks | amod |
| 55 | upright | upright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 sticks | amod |
| 56 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 fireplace | nmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go over | present | I | then; evening | over property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | visit | to-infinitive | I not said here | some vecino | neighbor obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | I | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | I not said here | the great adobe living room | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Topic | ||||
| 5 | gather | past | a group of old men and young boys | the great adobe living room not said here | about the queer little corner fireplace with group's blazing upright sticks | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=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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