The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 118
At last they could no longer bear to live in the lonely valley, and they decided to live elsewhere.
Who acts: relatives · What happens: live, decide · To what, where: lonely valley, last bear
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 (relatives), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bear | amod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bear | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 bear | aux |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 longer | advmod |
| 6 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 bear | advmod |
| 7 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 live | mark |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 bear | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 valley | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 valley | det |
| 12 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 valley | amod |
| 13 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 live | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 decided | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 decided | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 decided | nsubj |
| 17 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 live | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 live | mark |
| 19 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 decided | xcomp |
| 20 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 19 live | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | to-infinitive | the lonely valley | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valley=Location | |||||
| 2 | decide | past | relatives = relative | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | live not said to happen | to-infinitive | relatives = relative not said here | elsewhere property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: 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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