The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 81
But it is not like the fireplace where the little sister and I used to roast our apples and pop our corn.
Who acts: fireplace, little sister · What happens: not be, use, roast, pop · To what, where: apples, corn
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, little sister), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 fireplace | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fireplace | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fireplace | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 fireplace | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 fireplace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fireplace | det |
| 7 | fireplace | fireplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 used | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sister | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sister | amod |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 used | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 I | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 sister | conj |
| 14 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fireplace | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 roast | mark |
| 16 | roast | roast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 used | xcomp |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 apples | nmod:poss |
| 18 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 roast | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pop | cc |
| 20 | pop | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 roast | conj |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 corn | nmod:poss |
| 22 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pop | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fireplace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | fireplace | like the fireplace | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | past | the little sister I | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | roast | to-infinitive | the little sister I not said here | our apples | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent apple=Patient | ||||
| 4 | pop | present | the little sister I not said here | our corn | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=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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