The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 85
His back against the wall, squats my host, who is just going to begin another fairy story.
Who acts: back, host · What happens: squat, go, begin · To what, where: host, fairy story
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 (back, host), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 back | nmod:poss |
| 2 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 squats | nsubj |
| 3 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 wall | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wall | det |
| 5 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 back | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 back | punct |
| 7 | squats | squat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 host | nmod:poss |
| 9 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 squats | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 going | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 going | aux |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 going | advmod |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 host | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 begin | mark |
| 16 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 going | xcomp |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 story | det |
| 18 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 story | compound |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 begin | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 squats | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squat | present | log's back against the wall | my host | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme host=Location | ||||
| 2 | go | present · progressive | my host | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | begin | to-infinitive | my host not said here | another fairy story | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality |
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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