The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 106
But where the five True Believers stood, holding the cane, the floor was dusty.
Who acts: five True Believers, floor · What happens: stand, hold, be · To what, where: cane
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 (five True Believers, floor), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 stood | cc |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 stood | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Believers | det |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 Believers | nummod |
| 5 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Believers | amod |
| 6 | Believers | Believer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 holding | punct |
| 9 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 stood | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cane | det |
| 11 | cane | cane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 holding | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dusty | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 floor | det |
| 14 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dusty | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 dusty | cop |
| 16 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stood | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the five True Believers | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | the five True Believers not said here | the cane | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cane=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the floor | dusty property | tree rules |
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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