The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 74

The room is long and low, and overhead are dark, round rafters--the trunks of straight pine-trees that used to purr on the sides of the most famous mountain in New Mexico.

Who acts: room, overhead, straight pine trees · What happens: be, use, purr · To what, where: sides

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 (room, overhead, straight pine trees), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 room	det
2	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 long	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 low	cc
6	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dark	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dark	cc
9	overhead	overhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dark	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 dark	cop
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rafters	punct
13	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rafters	amod
14	rafters	rafter	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dark	obl
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 trunks	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 trunks	det
17	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 rafters	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 trees	case
19	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 trees	amod
20	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 trees	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 pine	punct
22	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 trunks	nmod
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 used	nsubj
24	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 trees	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 purr	mark
26	purr	purr	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 used	xcomp
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 sides	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sides	det
29	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 purr	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 mountain	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 mountain	det
32	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	33 famous	advmod
33	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 mountain	amod
34	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sides	nmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 Mexico	case
36	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Mexico	compound
37	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 mountain	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the room		long property	tree rules
2	be		the room not said here			tree rules
3	is	present	overhead		round rafters and the trunks of straight pine trees obl; dark property	tree rules
4	use	past	straight pine trees			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	purr	to-infinitive	straight pine trees not said here	the sides of the famous mountain in New Mexico		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 74

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 74