The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 77
Along the walls are benches, with wool mattresses rolled up and laid upon them.
What happens: be, roll up, lay · To what, where: benches, wool mattresses
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: 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 | Along | along | ADP | _ | 3 walls | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 walls | det |
| 3 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 benches | obl |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 benches | cop |
| 5 | benches | bench | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mattresses | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 mattresses | case |
| 8 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mattresses | compound |
| 9 | mattresses | mattress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 benches | nmod |
| 10 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 mattresses | acl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 rolled | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 laid | cc |
| 13 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 rolled | conj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 laid | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 benches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | benches | along the walls; with wool mattresses | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | roll up | participle | wool mattresses not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lay | participle | upon walls = wall | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon they=Destination |
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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