The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 38
As he entered a gorge he saw Hyo-kwáh-kwah-báy-deh, a little bird which builds its nest with pebbles and clay in the crannies of the cliffs, and is of exactly the same color as the sandstones.
Who acts: water, little bird · What happens: enter, see, build, be · To what, where: gorge, Hyo, nest
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 (water, little bird), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 entered | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 gorge | det |
| 5 | gorge | gorge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Hyo | Hyo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hyo | punct |
| 10 | kwáh | kwáh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Hyo | appos |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 kwáh | punct |
| 12 | kwah | kwah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Hyo | appos |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 kwah | punct |
| 14 | báy | báy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 deh | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 báy | punct |
| 16 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Hyo | list |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bird | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bird | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bird | amod |
| 20 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Hyo | appos |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 builds | nsubj |
| 22 | builds | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 bird | acl:relcl |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 nest | nmod:poss |
| 24 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 builds | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 pebbles | case |
| 26 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 builds | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 clay | cc |
| 28 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pebbles | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 crannies | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 crannies | det |
| 31 | crannies | cranny | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 clay | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 cliffs | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 cliffs | det |
| 34 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 crannies | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 color | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 color | cc |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 color | cop |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 color | case |
| 39 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 42 color | advmod |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 color | det |
| 41 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 color | amod |
| 42 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 43 | as | as | ADP | _ | 45 sandstones | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 sandstones | det |
| 45 | sandstones | sandstone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 color | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | water | a gorge | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gorge=Destination | ||||
| 2 | see | past | water | Hyo báy deh | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hyo=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | build | present | a little bird | bird's nest | with pebbles and clay in the crannies of the cliffs | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nest=Theme with pebble=Source | |||
| 4 | is | present | of the same color; as the sandstones; exactly 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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