The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 6
Several miles south of Laguna is a very large sandstone dome rising in the plain, and in the heart of this rock the Governor’s daughter had hollowed out a room in which she used to camp when on her hunting-expeditions.
Who acts: Several miles, large sandstone dome, daughter · What happens: be, rise, hollow out, use, camp · To what, where: large sandstone dome, plain, room, heart, hunting expeditions
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 (Several miles, large sandstone dome, daughter), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 miles | amod |
| 2 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dome | nsubj |
| 3 | south | south | ADV | _ | 2 miles | advmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Laguna | case |
| 5 | Laguna | Laguna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 south | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 dome | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dome | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 large | advmod |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dome | amod |
| 10 | sandstone | sandstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dome | compound |
| 11 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 dome | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 plain | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 plain | det |
| 15 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rising | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hollowed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hollowed | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 heart | det |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hollowed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 rock | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 rock | det |
| 23 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heart | nmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Governor | det |
| 25 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 Governor | case |
| 27 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hollowed | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 hollowed | aux |
| 29 | hollowed | hollow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 dome | parataxis |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 hollowed | compound:prt |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 room | det |
| 32 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hollowed | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 which | case |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 used | obl |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 used | nsubj |
| 36 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 room | acl:relcl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 camp | mark |
| 38 | camp | camp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 used | xcomp |
| 39 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 camp | advmod |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 expeditions | case |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 expeditions | nmod:poss |
| 42 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 expeditions | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 hunting | punct |
| 44 | expeditions | expedition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 camp | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 dome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Several miles | a large sandstone dome | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rise | gerund | a large sandstone dome not said here | the plain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in plain=Location | ||||
| 3 | hollow out | past · perfect | the Governor's daughter | a room | the heart of this rock | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent room=Source | |||
| 4 | use | past | daughter | a room | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | camp | to-infinitive | daughter not said here | daughter's hunting expeditions | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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