The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 94
The Rio Grande itself frequently disappears in September between certain points in its course in sandy New Mexico; and within ten miles below Isleta I have seen its bed bone-dry.
Who acts: Rio Grande, I, bed · What happens: disappear, see, dry
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 (Rio Grande, I, bed), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Grande | det |
| 2 | Rio | Rio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Grande | compound |
| 3 | Grande | Grande | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 disappears | nsubj |
| 4 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 3 Grande | appos |
| 5 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 6 disappears | advmod |
| 6 | disappears | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 September | case |
| 8 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 disappears | obl |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 points | case |
| 10 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 points | amod |
| 11 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 disappears | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 course | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 course | nmod:poss |
| 14 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 points | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Mexico | case |
| 16 | sandy | Sandy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Mexico | compound |
| 17 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Mexico | compound |
| 18 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 course | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 seen | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 seen | cc |
| 21 | within | within | ADP | _ | 23 miles | case |
| 22 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 miles | nummod |
| 23 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 seen | obl |
| 24 | below | below | ADP | _ | 25 Isleta | case |
| 25 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 miles | nmod |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 seen | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 seen | aux |
| 28 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 disappears | advcl |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 dry | nmod:poss |
| 30 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 dry | nsubj |
| 31 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 dry | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 dry | punct |
| 33 | dry | dry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 seen | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 disappears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | present | the Rio Grande | september | between certain points in Grande's course in sandy New Mexico; frequently property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | present · perfect | I | within ten miles below Isleta | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | dry | bed | Grande nmod:poss | 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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