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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

detnsubjcasecompoundoblpunctcaseamodcompoundparataxispunctpunctconjpunctaclcaseamodoblcasenmodpunctconjadvmodcasedetamodpunctamodoblpunctrootTheDETMoquisPROPNliveVERBinADPnortheastNOUNArizonaPROPN,PUNCTinADPstrangeADJadobeNOUNtownsNOUN,PUNCT[PUNCT73NUM]PUNCTperchedVERBuponADPimpregnableADJislandsNOUNofADProckNOUN,PUNCTrisingVERBfarADVaboveADPtheDETbareADJ,PUNCTbrownADJplainNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Moquisdet
2MoquisMoquisPROPNNumber=Sing3 livensubj
3liveliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4ininADP_6 Arizonacase
5northeastnortheastNOUNNumber=Sing6 Arizonacompound
6ArizonaArizonaPROPNNumber=Sing3 liveobl
7,,PUNCT_11 townspunct
8ininADP_11 townscase
9strangestrangeADJDegree=Pos11 townsamod
10adobeadobeNOUNNumber=Sing11 townscompound
11townstownNOUNNumber=Plur3 liveparataxis
12,,PUNCT_14 73punct
13[[PUNCT_14 73punct
147373NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card11 townsconj
15]]PUNCT_14 73punct
16perchedperchVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass11 townsacl
17uponuponADP_19 islandscase
18impregnableimpregnableADJDegree=Pos19 islandsamod
19islandsislandNOUNNumber=Plur16 perchedobl
20ofofADP_21 rockcase
21rockrockNOUNNumber=Sing19 islandsnmod
22,,PUNCT_23 risingpunct
23risingriseVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 liveconj
24farfarADVDegree=Pos23 risingadvmod
25aboveaboveADP_30 plaincase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 plaindet
27barebareADJDegree=Pos30 plainamod
28,,PUNCT_27 barepunct
29brownbrownADJDegree=Pos30 plainamod
30plainplainNOUNNumber=Sing24 farobl
31..PUNCT_3 livepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1livepresentthe Moquisnortheast Arizonastrange adobe towns parataxisvn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arizona=Location
2perchparticiplestrange adobe towns not said hereimpregnable islands of rockvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon island=Location
3risegerundthe Moquis not said herefar propertyvn 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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