The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 76
The floor is of adobe clay, packed almost as hard as a rock, and upon it are bright-hued blankets, woven in strange figures.
Who acts: floor · What happens: be, pack, hue, weave · To what, where: adobe clay, hued blankets
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 (floor), 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 floor | det |
| 2 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clay | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 clay | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 clay | case |
| 5 | adobe | adobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clay | compound |
| 6 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 packed | punct |
| 8 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 clay | acl |
| 9 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 11 hard | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 hard | advmod |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 packed | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 rock | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rock | det |
| 14 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 packed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 blankets | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 blankets | cc |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 blankets | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 blankets | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 blankets | cop |
| 20 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hued | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 bright | punct |
| 22 | hued | hue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 blankets | amod |
| 23 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 clay | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 woven | punct |
| 25 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 blankets | acl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 figures | case |
| 27 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 figures | amod |
| 28 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 woven | obl:agent |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 clay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the floor | of adobe clay | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pack | participle | adobe clay not said here | as a rock; hard property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hue | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | floor | upon hued blankets | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | weave | participle | hued blankets not said here | strange figures obl:agent | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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