The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 70
When Ees-tée-ah Muts had come to Acoma and climbed the dizzy stone ladder and stood in the adobe town, he was very much surprised.
Who acts: Ees tée, Acoma · What happens: come, climb, stand, be · To what, where: Acoma, dizzy stone ladder, adobe town
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 (Ees tée, Acoma), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 come | advmod |
| 2 | Ees | Ees | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tée | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ees | punct |
| 4 | tée | tée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 6 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 9 come | discourse |
| 7 | Muts | mut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 climbed | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Acoma | case |
| 11 | Acoma | Acoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 climbed | cc |
| 13 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ladder | det |
| 15 | dizzy | dizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ladder | amod |
| 16 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ladder | compound |
| 17 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 climbed | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stood | cc |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 climbed | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 town | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 town | det |
| 22 | adobe | adobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 town | compound |
| 23 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stood | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 surprised | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 surprised | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 surprised | cop |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 much | advmod |
| 28 | much | much | ADV | _ | 29 surprised | advmod |
| 29 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 climbed | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | Ees tée | Acoma | Muts nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to acoma=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | climb | past | the dizzy stone ladder | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ladder=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | the adobe town | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in town=Location | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Acoma | surprised 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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