The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 80
There is a fireplace, too, and we are gathered all about it, a dozen or more--for I have become an old friend here.
Who acts: fireplace, I · What happens: be, gather, become · To what, where: we, old friend
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 (fireplace, I), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fireplace | det |
| 4 | fireplace | fireplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 too | punct |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 is | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gathered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gathered | cc |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 gathered | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 gathered | aux:pass |
| 11 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 is | conj |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 it | advmod |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gathered | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dozen | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dozen | det |
| 17 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 is | parataxis |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 more | cc |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 dozen | conj |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 become | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 become | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 become | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 become | aux |
| 24 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 is | parataxis |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 friend | det |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 friend | amod |
| 27 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 become | xcomp |
| 28 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 friend | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a fireplace | there | a dozen parataxis | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | gather | present · passive | we | about fireplace | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | become | present · perfect | I | a old friend | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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