The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 44
_ Here is a dead man lying on our ledge!”
Who acts: _, dead man · What happens: be, lie · To what, where: dead man, ledge
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 (_, dead 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 man | nsubj |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 _ | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 man | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 ledge | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ledge | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ledge | ledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lying | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | _ | a dead man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | a dead man not said here | our ledge | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ledge=Location |
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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