The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 48
On each side were huge piles of ornaments and dresses, stores of grain, and all the other property of the people.
What happens: be · To what, where: huge piles, side
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Antelope Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 side | det |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 piles | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 piles | cop |
| 5 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 piles | amod |
| 6 | piles | pile | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ornaments | case |
| 8 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 piles | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dresses | cc |
| 10 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ornaments | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stores | punct |
| 12 | stores | store | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ornaments | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 grain | case |
| 14 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stores | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 property | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 property | cc |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 property | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 property | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 property | amod |
| 20 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 piles | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 people | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 people | det |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 property | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 piles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | huge piles | each side | of ornaments and dresses and stores of grain; all other property of the people appos | 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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