The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 11
Just as it was cooking a strong west wind came up and carried the savory smell from her chimney far to the east, till it reached a dark cavern in the Sandia Mountains, fifty miles away.
Who acts: fire, cooking · What happens: cook, come up, carry, reach · To what, where: strong west wind, savory smell, chimney, dark cavern, Sandia Mountains
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Quères Diana. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, cooking), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 5 cooking | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 cooking | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cooking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cooking | aux |
| 5 | cooking | cook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 came | csubj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wind | det |
| 7 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wind | amod |
| 8 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wind | compound |
| 9 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cooking | obj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 carried | cc |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 smell | det |
| 15 | savory | savory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 smell | amod |
| 16 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 chimney | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 chimney | nmod:poss |
| 19 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 carried | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 east | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 east | det |
| 23 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 reached | punct |
| 25 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 27 reached | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 reached | nsubj |
| 27 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 carried | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 cavern | det |
| 29 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cavern | amod |
| 30 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 reached | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 Mountains | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Mountains | det |
| 33 | Sandia | Sandia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Mountains | compound |
| 34 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 30 cavern | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 away | punct |
| 36 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 miles | nummod |
| 37 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 away | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 reached | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | past · progressive | fire | a strong west wind | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument wind=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come up | past | cooking | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | carry | past | cooking not said here | the savory smell | Governor's chimney | to the east; far property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent smell=Theme from chimney=Initial_Location to east=Destination | ||
| 4 | reach | past | fire | a dark cavern | the Sandia Mountains | away property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cavern=Theme |
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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