The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 6
Upon its top are still visible the crumbling ruins of the pueblo of Poo-reh-tú-ai--a town deserted, as we are historically sure, over three hundred and fifty years ago.
Who acts: we · What happens: be, crumble, desert, ruin · To what, where: crumbling ruins, pueblo
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 (we), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 3 top | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 top | nmod:poss |
| 3 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 visible | obl |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 visible | cop |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 visible | advmod |
| 6 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ruins | det |
| 8 | crumbling | crumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 ruins | amod |
| 9 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 visible | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 pueblo | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pueblo | det |
| 12 | pueblo | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ruins | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 ai | case |
| 14 | Poo | Poo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 ai | nsubj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Poo | punct |
| 16 | reh | reh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ai | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 tú | punct |
| 18 | tú | tú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ai | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 tú | punct |
| 20 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pueblo | nmod |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 town | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 town | det |
| 23 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ruins | conj |
| 24 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ruins | acl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 sure | punct |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 sure | mark |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 sure | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 sure | cop |
| 29 | historically | historically | ADV | _ | 30 sure | advmod |
| 30 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 visible | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hundred | punct |
| 32 | over | over | ADV | _ | 34 hundred | advmod |
| 33 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 hundred | compound |
| 34 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 years | nummod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 fifty | cc |
| 36 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 hundred | conj |
| 37 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 30 sure | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 visible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | still | upon plain's top; the crumbling ruins of the pueblo of reh tú ai Poo and a town parataxis; visible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | crumble | gerund | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | desert | participle | the crumbling ruins of the pueblo of reh tú ai Poo and a town not said here | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | present | we | ago, historically, sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | ruin | the pueblo of reh tú ai Poo | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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