The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 64
So at the appointed hour they met him at the sacred hill.
Who acts: sisters · What happens: appoint, meet · To what, where: Man, sacred hill
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 (sisters), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 met | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 hour | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hour | det |
| 4 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hour | amod |
| 5 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 met | nsubj |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 met | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 hill | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hill | det |
| 11 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hill | amod |
| 12 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | meet | past | sisters = sister | Man | the sacred hill | hour | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
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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