The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 89
In the evening they went to the _estufa_, which was crowded with the witch-people, so that they had barely room to stand.
Who acts: Believers, estufa · What happens: go, be, have, stand · To what, where: estufa, room
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 (Believers, estufa), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 estufa | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 estufa | det |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 estufa | punct |
| 9 | estufa | estufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 estufa | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 crowded | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 crowded | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 crowded | cop |
| 14 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 estufa | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 people | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 people | det |
| 17 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 people | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 witch | punct |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 crowded | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 had | punct |
| 21 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 24 had | mark |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 so | fixed |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 25 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 26 room | advmod |
| 26 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 stand | mark |
| 28 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 room | acl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Believers = believer | the estufa | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to estufa=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | the estufa | with the witch people; crowded property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Believers = believer | room | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient | ||||
| 4 | stand | to-infinitive | Believers = believer not said here | room not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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