The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 5
One day there came climbing up the stone ladder to the cliff-built pueblo a tall and handsome stranger.
What happens: come, climb up, build · To what, where: stone ladder
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: 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | climbing | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 came | xcomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 climbing | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ladder | det |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ladder | compound |
| 9 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbing | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 pueblo | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pueblo | det |
| 12 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 built | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 cliff | punct |
| 14 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 pueblo | amod |
| 15 | pueblo | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbing | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 stranger | det |
| 17 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stranger | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 handsome | cc |
| 19 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tall | conj |
| 20 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbing | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | there | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | climb up | gerund | the stone ladder | to the built pueblo; a tall stranger obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | build | participle | cliff compound | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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