The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 31
But when Mí-o-chin built his fire and heated the stones, again the warm South Wind drove away the ice and dried the earth.
Who acts: Mí, warm South Wind · What happens: build, heat, drive away, dry, fire · To what, where: fire, stones, ice, earth
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 (Mí, warm South Wind), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 heated | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 built | advmod |
| 3 | Mí | Mí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 built | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 chin | punct |
| 5 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 7 chin | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 o | punct |
| 7 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Mí | appos |
| 8 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heated | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fire | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 built | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 heated | cc |
| 12 | heated | heat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stones | det |
| 14 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 heated | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 drove | punct |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 drove | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Wind | det |
| 18 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Wind | amod |
| 19 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Wind | compound |
| 20 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 drove | nsubj |
| 21 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heated | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 drove | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ice | det |
| 24 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drove | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 dried | cc |
| 26 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 drove | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 earth | det |
| 28 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dried | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 heated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | Mí | Mí's fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | ||||
| 2 | heat | past | the stones | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stone=Patient | |||||
| 3 | drive away | past | the warm South Wind | the ice | again | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Theme | ||
| 4 | dry | past | the warm South Wind not said here | the earth | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient earth=Result | ||||
| 5 | fire | Mí | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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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