The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 68
Turning his face to the north he smoked the first cigarette.
Who acts: boy · What happens: turn, smoke · To what, where: face, north, first cigarette
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: who acts (boy), 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 | Turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 smoked | csubj |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 face | nmod:poss |
| 3 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Turning | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 north | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 north | det |
| 6 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Turning | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 smoked | nsubj |
| 8 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cigarette | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 cigarette | amod |
| 11 | cigarette | cigarette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 smoked | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 smoked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | boy's face | the north | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent face=Theme to north=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | smoke | past | boy | the first cigarette | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent cigarette=Source |
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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