The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 6
His dress glistened with white crystals, and his face, though handsome, was very stern.
Who acts: dress · What happens: glisten, be · To what, where: dress
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 (dress), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 dress | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stern | nsubj |
| 3 | glistened | glisten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dress | acl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 crystals | case |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 crystals | amod |
| 6 | crystals | crystal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 glistened | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 face | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 face | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dress | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 handsome | punct |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 handsome | mark |
| 13 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 face | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dress | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stern | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 stern | advmod |
| 17 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 stern | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glisten | participle | man's dress and man's face not said here | with white crystals | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with crystal=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | man's dress and man's face | stern property | tree rules |
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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