The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 4
It is a circular “island” of hard, black lava, cut off from the long lava cliffs which wall the valley of the Rio Grande on the west.
Who acts: plain · What happens: be, cut off · To what, where: circular island, long lava cliffs · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 island | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 island | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 island | det |
| 4 | circular | circular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 island | amod |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 island | punct |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 island | punct |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 lava | case |
| 9 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lava | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hard | punct |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lava | amod |
| 12 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 island | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cut | punct |
| 14 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 island | parataxis |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 cut | compound:prt |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 cliffs | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cliffs | det |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cliffs | amod |
| 19 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cliffs | compound |
| 20 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cut | obl |
| 21 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 22 wall | det |
| 22 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cliffs | nmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 valley | det |
| 24 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wall | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Grande | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Grande | det |
| 27 | Rio | Rio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Grande | compound |
| 28 | Grande | Grande | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 valley | nmod |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 west | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 west | det |
| 31 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 valley | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 island | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | plain | a circular island | of hard black lava | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cut off | infinitive | the long lava cliffs which wall the valley of the Rio Grande | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent from cliff=Initial_Location |
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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