The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 4
The Moquis live in northeast Arizona, in strange adobe towns,[73] perched upon impregnable islands of rock, rising far above the bare, brown plain.
Who acts: Moquis · What happens: live, perch, rise · To what, where: northeast Arizona, strange adobe towns, impregnable islands
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moquis), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Moquis | det |
| 2 | Moquis | Moquis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Arizona | case |
| 5 | northeast | northeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Arizona | compound |
| 6 | Arizona | Arizona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 live | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 towns | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 towns | case |
| 9 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 towns | amod |
| 10 | adobe | adobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 towns | compound |
| 11 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 73 | punct |
| 13 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 14 73 | punct |
| 14 | 73 | 73 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 towns | conj |
| 15 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 14 73 | punct |
| 16 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 towns | acl |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 islands | case |
| 18 | impregnable | impregnable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 islands | amod |
| 19 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 perched | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 rock | case |
| 21 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 islands | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rising | punct |
| 23 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 live | conj |
| 24 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 rising | advmod |
| 25 | above | above | ADP | _ | 30 plain | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 plain | det |
| 27 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 plain | amod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bare | punct |
| 29 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 plain | amod |
| 30 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 far | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the Moquis | northeast Arizona | strange adobe towns parataxis | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arizona=Location | |||
| 2 | perch | participle | strange adobe towns not said here | impregnable islands of rock | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon island=Location | ||||
| 3 | rise | gerund | the Moquis not said here | far property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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