The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 40
He could hardly move without falling from the narrow shelf, and there he lay with bitter thoughts until the sun was high overhead.
Who acts: frog, sun · What happens: move, fall, lie, be · To what, where: narrow shelf
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 (frog, sun), 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 | 4 move | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 move | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 move | advmod |
| 4 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 6 falling | mark |
| 6 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 move | advcl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 shelf | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shelf | det |
| 9 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shelf | amod |
| 10 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 falling | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lay | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lay | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 lay | expl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lay | nsubj |
| 15 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 move | parataxis |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 thoughts | case |
| 17 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thoughts | amod |
| 18 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lay | obl |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 23 high | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sun | det |
| 21 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 high | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 high | cop |
| 23 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lay | advcl |
| 24 | overhead | overhead | ADV | _ | 23 high | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 move | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | could | frog | hardly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | gerund | frog not said here | the narrow shelf | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from shelf=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | frog | there | with bitter thoughts | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | is | past | the sun | high, overhead property | 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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