The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 7
The fair _kot-chin-á-ka_ (chief’s daughter), bending at a pool in the great rock to fill her water-jar, saw and admired him as he came striding proudly to the village; and he did not fail to notice the dusky beauty.
Who acts: man · What happens: bend, fill, see, admire, come, stride · To what, where: pool, water jar, man, village, dusky beauty, fair kot
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 (man), 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 | 4 kot | det |
| 2 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kot | amod |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 fair | punct |
| 4 | kot | kot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 kot | punct |
| 6 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kot | conj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 á | punct |
| 8 | á | á | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kot | conj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ka | punct |
| 10 | ka | ka | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 á | appos |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 ka | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 daughter | punct |
| 13 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 chief | case |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ka | appos |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 daughter | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bending | punct |
| 18 | bending | bend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 ka | advcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 pool | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pool | det |
| 21 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bending | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 rock | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rock | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 rock | amod |
| 25 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pool | nmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 fill | mark |
| 27 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 bending | advcl |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 jar | nmod:poss |
| 29 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 jar | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 water | punct |
| 31 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fill | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 saw | punct |
| 33 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 bending | parataxis |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 admired | cc |
| 35 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 saw | conj |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 admired | obj |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 came | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 came | nsubj |
| 39 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 admired | advcl |
| 40 | striding | stride | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 came | xcomp |
| 41 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 40 striding | advmod |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 village | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 village | det |
| 44 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 striding | obl |
| 45 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 50 fail | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 fail | cc |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 fail | nsubj |
| 48 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 fail | aux |
| 49 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 50 fail | advmod |
| 50 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 kot | appos |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 notice | mark |
| 52 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 fail | xcomp |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 beauty | det |
| 54 | dusky | dusky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 beauty | amod |
| 55 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 notice | obj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | gerund | a pool in the great rock | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at pool=Location | |||||
| 2 | fill | to-infinitive | _'s water jar | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent jar=Patient | |||||
| 3 | see | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | admire | past | man | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | come | past | man | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | stride | gerund | man not said here | the village | proudly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to village=Destination | |||
| 7 | not fail | past · do-support | man | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | notice | to-infinitive | man not said here | the dusky beauty | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus |
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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