The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 145
At the sweet smell of the roasting corn came the starving neighbors, crowding at the door, and crying:
Who acts: roasting corn · What happens: roast, come, crowd, cry, smell · To what, where: starving neighbors, sweet smell, door
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 (roasting corn), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 smell | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 smell | det |
| 3 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 smell | amod |
| 4 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 corn | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 corn | det |
| 7 | roasting | roast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 corn | amod |
| 8 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smell | nmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 neighbors | det |
| 11 | starving | starving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 neighbors | compound |
| 12 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 crowding | punct |
| 14 | crowding | crowd | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crowding | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 crying | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 crying | cc |
| 20 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roast | gerund | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | come | past | the starving neighbors | the sweet smell of the roasting corn | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location neighbor=Theme | ||||
| 3 | crowd | gerund | the door | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at door=Destination | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | smell | the roasting corn | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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