The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 64
There sat the divinities of the East, who are white; and of the North, who are blue; and beyond them were the sacred animals--the mountain lion, the eagle, bear, buffalo, badger, hawk, rabbit, rattlesnake, and all the others that are of the Trues.
Who acts: divinities, others · What happens: sit, be · To what, where: divinities
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 (divinities, others), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 sat | expl |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 divinities | det |
| 4 | divinities | divinity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sat | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 East | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 East | det |
| 7 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 divinities | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 white | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 white | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 white | cop |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 divinities | parataxis |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 blue | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 blue | cc |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 North | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 North | det |
| 16 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 blue | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 blue | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 blue | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 blue | cop |
| 20 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sat | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 animals | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 animals | cc |
| 23 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 28 animals | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 animals | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 animals | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 animals | det |
| 27 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 animals | amod |
| 28 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sat | conj |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 animals | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 lion | det |
| 31 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lion | compound |
| 32 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 animals | appos |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 eagle | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 eagle | det |
| 35 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lion | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 bear | punct |
| 37 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lion | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 buffalo | punct |
| 39 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lion | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 badger | punct |
| 41 | badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lion | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 hawk | punct |
| 43 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lion | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 rabbit | punct |
| 45 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lion | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 rattlesnake | punct |
| 47 | rattlesnake | rattlesnake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lion | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 Trues | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 Trues | cc |
| 50 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 52 others | det:predet |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 others | det |
| 52 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 Trues | nsubj |
| 53 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 57 Trues | nsubj |
| 54 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 57 Trues | cop |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 Trues | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 Trues | det |
| 57 | Trues | true | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sat | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the divinities of the East | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location divinity=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the divinities of the East | white property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | of the North; who nsubj; blue property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | past | divinities = divinity | beyond the sacred animals; the mountain lion and the eagle and bear and buffalo and badger and hawk and rabbit and rattlesnake appos | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | all others | of the Trues; that nsubj | 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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