The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 88
And even now, when we dig in that little hill on the other side of the _charco_ (pool), we find charred corn-cobs, where our forefathers burned the witch-people of the yellow village.
Who acts: we, forefathers · What happens: dig, find, char, burn · To what, where: little hill, charred corn cobs, witch people
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 (we, forefathers), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dig | cc |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 3 now | advmod |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 dig | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dig | punct |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 dig | mark |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 dig | nsubj |
| 7 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hill | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 hill | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hill | amod |
| 11 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dig | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 side | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 side | amod |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hill | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 charco | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 charco | det |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 charco | punct |
| 19 | charco | charco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 side | nmod |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 dig | discourse |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 pool | punct |
| 22 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dig | parataxis |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 pool | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 find | punct |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 find | nsubj |
| 26 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dig | conj |
| 27 | charred | char | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 cobs | amod |
| 28 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cobs | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 corn | punct |
| 30 | cobs | cob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 find | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 burned | punct |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 burned | advmod |
| 33 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 forefathers | nmod:poss |
| 34 | forefathers | forefather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 burned | nsubj |
| 35 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 cobs | acl:relcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 people | det |
| 37 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 people | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 witch | punct |
| 39 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 burned | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 village | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 village | det |
| 42 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 village | amod |
| 43 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 people | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dig | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | present | we | that little hill on the other side of the charco | now | pool parataxis | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in hill=Location | ||
| 2 | find | present | we | charred corn cobs | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cob=Topic | ||||
| 3 | char | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | burn | past | our forefathers | the witch people of the yellow village | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent people=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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