The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 5
Its level top, of over fifty acres, is some two hundred feet above the plain; the last fifty feet being a stern and almost unbroken cliff.
Who acts: level top, last fifty feet · What happens: be · To what, where: hundred feet, plain, stern
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 (level top, last fifty feet), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 top | nmod:poss |
| 2 | level | level | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 top | amod |
| 3 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feet | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 acres | punct |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 acres | case |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 fifty | advmod |
| 7 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 acres | nummod |
| 8 | acres | acre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 top | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 top | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 feet | cop |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 feet | det |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 hundred | compound |
| 13 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 feet | nummod |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 15 | above | above | ADP | _ | 17 plain | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 plain | det |
| 17 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feet | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 stern | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 feet | det |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 feet | amod |
| 21 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 feet | nummod |
| 22 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stern | nsubj |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 stern | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 stern | det |
| 25 | stern | stern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feet | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 cliff | cc |
| 27 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 28 unbroken | advmod |
| 28 | unbroken | unbroken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 cliff | amod |
| 29 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stern | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 feet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | plain's level top and fifty acres | some hundred feet | the plain | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | gerund | the last fifty feet | a stern and unbroken cliff | unbroken cliff conj | 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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