The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 73
As for the snakes, they went to live in the cliffs of their own mesa.
Who acts: Embraces · What happens: go, live · To what, where: cliffs
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 (Embraces), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 snakes | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 snakes | det |
| 4 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 snakes | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 live | mark |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 went | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 cliffs | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cliffs | det |
| 12 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 live | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 mesa | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mesa | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mesa | amod |
| 16 | mesa | mesa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cliffs | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Embraces = embrace | as the snakes | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | Embraces = embrace not said here | the cliffs of Embraces's own mesa | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cliff=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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