The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 75
The walls are white as snow, and you would never imagine that they are built only of cut sods, plastered over and whitewashed.
Who acts: walls, you · What happens: be, not imagine, build, plaster over, whitewash · To what, where: walls, cut sods
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 (walls, you), 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 walls | det |
| 2 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 white | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 white | cop |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 snow | case |
| 6 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 white | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 imagine | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 imagine | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 imagine | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 imagine | aux |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 imagine | advmod |
| 12 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 white | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 built | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 built | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 built | aux:pass |
| 16 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 imagine | advcl |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 sods | advmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sods | case |
| 19 | cut | cut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sods | amod |
| 20 | sods | sod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 built | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 plastered | punct |
| 22 | plastered | plaster | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 sods | acl |
| 23 | over | over | ADV | _ | 22 plastered | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 whitewashed | cc |
| 25 | whitewashed | whitewash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 plastered | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 white | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the walls | as snow; white property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not imagine | would | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | build | present · passive | walls = wall | cut sods obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary sod=Product | ||||
| 4 | plaster over | participle | cut sods not said here | over property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | whitewash | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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