The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 39
On the road night overtook him, and seeing an abandoned house in a field, he hastened to it for shelter from the cold of night.
Who acts: Isleta · What happens: overtake, see, abandon, hasten · To what, where: Isleta, abandoned house, field, cold
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Isleta), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 night | det |
| 3 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 night | compound |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 overtook | obl |
| 5 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 overtook | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hastened | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hastened | cc |
| 9 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 hastened | advcl |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 11 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 house | amod |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seeing | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 field | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 field | det |
| 15 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seeing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seeing | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hastened | nsubj |
| 18 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 overtook | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hastened | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 shelter | case |
| 22 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hastened | obl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 cold | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cold | det |
| 25 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hastened | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 night | case |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cold | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 overtook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overtake | past | Isleta | night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | Isleta not said here | a abandoned house | a field | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | abandon | participle | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | hasten | past | Isleta | field | the cold of night | for shelter | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination |
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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