The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 7
The mound outlines of the round _estufa_, the houses and the streets, are still easy to be traced, and bits of pottery, broken arrow-heads, and other relics, still abound there.
Who acts: mound outlines, other relics · What happens: be, trace, break, abound
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 (mound outlines, other relics), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 outlines | det |
| 2 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 outlines | compound |
| 3 | outlines | outline | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 easy | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 estufa | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 estufa | det |
| 6 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 estufa | amod |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 round | punct |
| 8 | estufa | estufa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 outlines | nmod |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 outlines | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 houses | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 houses | det |
| 12 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 outlines | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 streets | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 streets | det |
| 15 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 houses | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 outlines | punct |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 easy | cop |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 easy | advmod |
| 19 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 traced | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 traced | aux:pass |
| 22 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 easy | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bits | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bits | cc |
| 25 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 easy | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 pottery | case |
| 27 | pottery | pottery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bits | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 heads | punct |
| 29 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 heads | amod |
| 30 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 heads | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 arrow | punct |
| 32 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 bits | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 abound | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 abound | cc |
| 35 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 relics | amod |
| 36 | relics | relic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 abound | nsubj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 relics | punct |
| 38 | still | still | ADV | _ | 39 abound | advmod |
| 39 | abound | abound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 easy | conj |
| 40 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 abound | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the mound outlines of the round estufa and the houses and the streets | still | bits of pottery and broken arrow heads parataxis; easy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | trace | to-infinitive · passive | the mound outlines of the round estufa and the houses and the streets not said here | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | abound | infinitive | other relics | there | still | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
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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