The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 3
Three miles north of Isleta, amid the sandy plain of Los Padillas, stands the strange round mesa of Shee-em-tóo-ai.
Who acts: sandy plain · What happens: stand · To what, where: Three miles
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Town of the Snake-girls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sandy plain), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 miles | nummod |
| 2 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stands | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | north | north | ADV | _ | 2 miles | advmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Isleta | case |
| 5 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 north | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 plain | punct |
| 7 | amid | amid | ADP | _ | 10 plain | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 plain | det |
| 9 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 plain | amod |
| 10 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stands | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Los | case |
| 12 | Los | Los | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 plain | nmod |
| 13 | Padillas | Padillas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Los | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stands | punct |
| 15 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mesa | det |
| 17 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mesa | amod |
| 18 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mesa | amod |
| 19 | mesa | mesa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stands | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 ai | case |
| 21 | Shee | Shee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 ai | nsubj |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Shee | punct |
| 23 | em | em | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Shee | appos |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 em | punct |
| 25 | tóo | tóo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ai | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 tóo | punct |
| 27 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mesa | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | the sandy plain of Los | Three miles | the strange round mesa of tóo ai Shee obj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mesa=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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