The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 1
TWENTY-FIVE miles southeast of Santa Fé, New Mexico, lie the deserted ruins of the ancient Pueblo town of Pecos.
Who acts: miles southeast · What happens: lie, desert, ruin · To what, where: deserted ruins, ancient Pueblo town
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Drowning of Pecos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miles southeast), 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 | TWENTY | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 FIVE | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 TWENTY | punct |
| 3 | FIVE | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 miles | nummod |
| 4 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 southeast | compound |
| 5 | southeast | southeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lie | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Santa | case |
| 7 | Santa | Santa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 southeast | nmod |
| 8 | Fé | Fé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Santa | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Mexico | punct |
| 10 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Mexico | compound |
| 11 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Fé | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 southeast | punct |
| 13 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ruins | det |
| 15 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 ruins | amod |
| 16 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lie | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 town | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 town | det |
| 19 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 town | amod |
| 20 | Pueblo | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 town | compound |
| 21 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ruins | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Pecos | case |
| 23 | Pecos | Pecos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 town | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | miles southeast of Santa | the deserted ruins of the ancient Pueblo town of Pecos | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | desert | participle | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | ruin | the ancient Pueblo town of Pecos | 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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