The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 160
[96] An Indian bread made by spreading successive films of blue corn-meal batter on a flat hot stone.
What happens: make, spread, film · To what, where: Indian bread, successive films, flat hot stone, 96, blue meal batter
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Revenge of the Fawns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 2 96 | punct |
| 2 | 96 | 96 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 96 | punct |
| 4 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bread | det |
| 5 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bread | amod |
| 6 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 96 | appos |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 bread | acl |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 spreading | mark |
| 9 | spreading | spread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 made | advcl |
| 10 | successive | successive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 films | amod |
| 11 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 spreading | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 batter | case |
| 13 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 batter | amod |
| 14 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 meal | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 corn | punct |
| 16 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 batter | compound |
| 17 | batter | batter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 films | nmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 stone | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 stone | det |
| 20 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 stone | amod |
| 21 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 stone | amod |
| 22 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spreading | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 96 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | a Indian bread not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 2 | spread | gerund | successive films of blue meal batter | a flat hot stone | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent film=Theme on stone=Destination | ||||
| 4 | film | blue meal batter | nom film «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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