The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 22
As he put his foot on the ladder to come down into the house (all Pueblo rooms used to be entered only from the roof, and thousands are so yet) great flakes of snow fell around him; but Mí-o-chin, the newcomer, made it very warm, and the snow melted.
Who acts: Shó, Pueblo rooms, thousands, great flakes, Mí, snow · What happens: put, come down, use, enter, be, fall · To what, where: foot, ladder, house, roof
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 (Shó, Pueblo rooms, thousands, great flakes), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 put | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 foot | nmod:poss |
| 5 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 ladder | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ladder | det |
| 8 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 put | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 used | punct |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 rooms | det |
| 17 | Pueblo | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 rooms | compound |
| 18 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 used | nsubj |
| 19 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 house | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 entered | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 entered | aux:pass |
| 22 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 used | xcomp |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 roof | advmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 roof | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 roof | det |
| 26 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 entered | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 fell | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 fell | cc |
| 29 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 yet | nsubj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 yet | cop |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 yet | advmod |
| 32 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 38 fell | advmod |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 yet | punct |
| 34 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 flakes | amod |
| 35 | flakes | flake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 fell | nsubj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 snow | case |
| 37 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 flakes | nmod |
| 38 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 39 | around | around | ADP | _ | 40 him | case |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 fell | obl |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 52 made | punct |
| 42 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 52 made | cc |
| 43 | Mí | Mí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 made | nsubj |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 chin | punct |
| 45 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 47 chin | case |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 o | punct |
| 47 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 Mí | appos |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 newcomer | punct |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 newcomer | det |
| 50 | newcomer | newcomer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 Mí | appos |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 Mí | punct |
| 52 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 53 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 made | obj |
| 54 | very | very | ADV | _ | 55 warm | advmod |
| 55 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 made | xcomp |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 melted | punct |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 melted | cc |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 snow | det |
| 59 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 melted | nsubj |
| 60 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 put | conj |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Shó | Shó's foot | the ladder | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on ladder=Destination | |||
| 2 | come down | to-infinitive | Shó not said here | the house | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | use | past | all Pueblo rooms | the house not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent house=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | enter | to-infinitive · passive | all Pueblo rooms not said here | the roof | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: from roof=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | is | present | thousands | yet property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | fall | past | great flakes of snow | around Shó | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around he=Location | ||||
| 7 | make | past | Mí | foot | warm property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | |||
| 8 | melt | participle | the snow | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «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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