The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 27
He saw a great firelit room full of witches in the shapes of ravens and vultures, wolves and other animals of ill omen.
Who acts: man · What happens: see · To what, where: great firelit room
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Sobbing Pine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 room | amod |
| 5 | firelit | firelit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 room | compound |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 room | amod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 witches | case |
| 9 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 full | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 shapes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shapes | det |
| 12 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 witches | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 ravens | case |
| 14 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shapes | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 vultures | cc |
| 16 | vultures | vulture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ravens | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wolves | punct |
| 18 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shapes | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 animals | cc |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 animals | amod |
| 21 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shapes | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 omen | case |
| 23 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 omen | amod |
| 24 | omen | omen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 animals | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | man | a great firelit room | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer room=Stimulus |
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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