The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 83
There is no big front log, but three or four gnarled cedar sticks, standing on one end, crackle loudly.
Who acts: big front log · What happens: be, gnarl, stand, crackle · To what, where: three gnarled cedar sticks, one end
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 (big front log), 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 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 log | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 log | amod |
| 5 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 log | amod |
| 6 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sticks | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 sticks | cc |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 sticks | nummod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 four | cc |
| 11 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 three | conj |
| 12 | gnarled | gnarl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 sticks | amod |
| 13 | cedar | cedar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sticks | amod |
| 14 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 is | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 standing | punct |
| 16 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 is | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 end | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 end | nummod |
| 19 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 standing | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 crackle | punct |
| 21 | crackle | crackle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 standing | advcl |
| 22 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 21 crackle | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no big front log | three gnarled cedar sticks | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | gnarl | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | no big front log not said here | on one end | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on end=Location | ||||
| 4 | crackle | infinitive | no big front log not said here | loudly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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