The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 3
A few years ago it would have frightened me very seriously to find my self thus--alone in one of the remotest corners of New Mexico save for that swarthy face peering up into mine by the weird light of the camp-fire.
Who acts: remotest corners, swarthy face · What happens: frighten, find, save, peer up, light · To what, where: face, self, camp fire
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: who acts (remotest corners, swarthy face), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 years | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 8 frightened | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 frightened | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 frightened | aux |
| 8 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 frightened | obj |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 seriously | advmod |
| 11 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 8 frightened | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 frightened | advcl |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 self | nmod:poss |
| 15 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 16 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 13 find | advmod |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 one | punct |
| 18 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 20 one | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 find | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 corners | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 corners | det |
| 23 | remotest | remote | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 corners | amod |
| 24 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 save | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Mexico | case |
| 26 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Mexico | compound |
| 27 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 corners | nmod |
| 28 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 one | parataxis |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 face | case |
| 30 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 face | det |
| 31 | swarthy | swarthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 face | amod |
| 32 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 save | obl |
| 33 | peering | peer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 face | acl |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 peering | compound:prt |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 mine | case |
| 36 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 peering | obl |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 light | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 light | det |
| 39 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 light | amod |
| 40 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 peering | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 fire | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 fire | det |
| 43 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 fire | compound |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 camp | punct |
| 45 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 light | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | would · perfect · passive | face | me obj; ago, seriously property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer i=Result | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | my self | in one; thus property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent self=Topic | ||||
| 3 | save | present | the remotest corners of New Mexico | for that swarthy face | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for face=Source | ||||
| 4 | peer up | gerund | that swarthy face not said here | into mine; by the weird light of the camp fire | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into my=Theme | ||||
| 5 | light | the camp fire | nom light «phenomenon 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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