The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 2

The village was finally abandoned by the Indians in 1840; and their neat houses of adobe bricks and stone, and their quaint adobe church, have sadly fallen to decay.

Who acts: Indians · What happens: abandon, fall, decay · To what, where: village, 1840

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 (Indians), 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	2 village	det
2	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 abandoned	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 abandoned	aux:pass
4	finally	finally	ADV	_	5 abandoned	advmod
5	abandoned	abandon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 Indians	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Indians	det
8	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 abandoned	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 1840	case
10	1840	1840	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 abandoned	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 houses	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 houses	cc
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 houses	nmod:poss
14	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 houses	amod
15	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 abandoned	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 bricks	case
17	adobe	adobe	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bricks	compound
18	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 houses	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stone	cc
20	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bricks	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 church	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 church	cc
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 church	nmod:poss
24	quaint	quaint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 church	amod
25	adobe	adobe	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 church	compound
26	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 houses	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fallen	punct
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 fallen	aux
29	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	30 fallen	advmod
30	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 houses	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 decay	mark
32	decay	decay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 fallen	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 abandoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	abandon	past · passive	the Indians	the village	1840	Indians's neat houses of adobe bricks and stone and bricks's quaint adobe church obl; finally property	vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme subject=Source
2	fall	present · perfect	the Indians not said here			sadly property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	decay	to-infinitive	the Indians not said here				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 2