The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 10
The water froze in the springs and the corn withered in the fields.
Who acts: water, corn · What happens: freeze, wither · To what, where: fields
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The North Wind and the South Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, corn), 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 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 froze | nsubj |
| 3 | froze | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 springs | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 springs | det |
| 6 | springs | spring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 froze | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 withered | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 corn | det |
| 9 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 withered | nsubj |
| 10 | withered | wither | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 froze | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 fields | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fields | det |
| 13 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 withered | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 froze | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | past | the water | spring | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wither | past | the corn | the fields | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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