The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 60
Before night it was a large tree, and the second morning it was twice as tall.
Who acts: tree · What happens: be · To what, where: large tree
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 (tree), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 2 night | case |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tree | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tree | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tree | amod |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tall | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tall | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 morning | det |
| 11 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 morning | amod |
| 12 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tall | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 tall | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 tall | cop |
| 15 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 tall | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 tall | advmod |
| 17 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tree | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | tree | a large tree | night | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | tree | morning | tall, twice 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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