The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 82
A wee hearth of clay rises a few inches from the floor; a yard above it hangs the chimney, like a big white hood; and a little wall, four feet high, runs from it out into the room, that the wind from the outer door may not blow the ashes.
Who acts: wee hearth, yard, little wall, wind · What happens: rise, hang, run out, not blow · To what, where: few inches, floor, chimney, hearth, ashes
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 (wee hearth, yard, little wall, wind), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hearth | det |
| 2 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hearth | amod |
| 3 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rises | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 clay | case |
| 5 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hearth | nmod |
| 6 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 inches | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 inches | amod |
| 9 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rises | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 floor | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 floor | det |
| 12 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 inches | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 hangs | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 yard | det |
| 15 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hangs | nsubj |
| 16 | above | above | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 yard | nmod |
| 18 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rises | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 chimney | det |
| 20 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hangs | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hood | punct |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 hood | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 hood | det |
| 24 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hood | amod |
| 25 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hood | amod |
| 26 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hangs | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 runs | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 runs | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 wall | det |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 wall | amod |
| 31 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 runs | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 feet | punct |
| 33 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 feet | nummod |
| 34 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 high | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 wall | amod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 wall | punct |
| 37 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rises | conj |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 it | case |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 runs | obl |
| 40 | out | out | ADV | _ | 37 runs | advmod |
| 41 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 room | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 room | det |
| 43 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 runs | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 blow | punct |
| 45 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 54 blow | mark |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 wind | det |
| 47 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 blow | nsubj |
| 48 | from | from | ADP | _ | 51 door | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 door | det |
| 50 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 door | amod |
| 51 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 wind | nmod |
| 52 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 54 blow | aux |
| 53 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 54 blow | advmod |
| 54 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 runs | advcl |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 ashes | det |
| 56 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 blow | obj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present | a wee hearth of clay | a few inches | the floor | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient inch=Extent from floor=Initial_State | |||
| 2 | hang | present | a yard above hearth | the chimney | like a big white hood | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chimney=Patient | |||
| 3 | run out | present | a little wall | hearth | into the room; out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from it=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | not blow | may | the wind from the outer door | the ashes | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ash=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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