The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 143
“Yet look once more,” he said; and when they opened the door, lo! there was the store-room piled to the roof with corn, and another room was full of wheat.
Who acts: person, sisters, room · What happens: look, say, open, be, pile · To what, where: door, store room · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, sisters, room), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 2 | Yet | yet | ADV | _ | 3 look | advmod |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 look | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 room | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 was | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 opened | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 opened | nsubj |
| 14 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 was | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 opened | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 opened | punct |
| 18 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 21 was | discourse |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 lo | punct |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 room | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 room | det |
| 23 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 room | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 store | punct |
| 25 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 26 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 room | acl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 roof | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 roof | det |
| 29 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 piled | obl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 corn | case |
| 31 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 piled | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 full | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 full | cc |
| 34 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 room | det |
| 35 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 full | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 full | cop |
| 37 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 wheat | case |
| 39 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 full | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | yet | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | person | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | open | past | sisters = sister | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the store room | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | pile | participle | the store room not said here | to the roof; with corn | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with corn=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | another room | of wheat; full 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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