The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 11
Going through this room she came to another, which was full of gaunt, starving women, and here and there one lay dead upon the floor; and in the next room were scores of bleached and ghastly skeletons.
Who acts: lot, room · What happens: go, come, be, starve, bleach · To what, where: room, women, scores, next room
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, A Pueblo Bluebeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lot, room), 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 | Going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 dead | csubj |
| 2 | through | through | ADP | _ | 4 room | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 room | det |
| 4 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Going | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 room | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 another | case |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 full | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 full | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 full | cop |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 room | amod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 gaunt | case |
| 14 | gaunt | gaunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 full | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 starving | punct |
| 16 | starving | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Going | conj |
| 17 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 starving | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 here | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 here | cc |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Going | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 there | cc |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 here | conj |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 lay | nummod |
| 24 | lay | lay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 here | nsubj |
| 25 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 floor | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 floor | det |
| 28 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dead | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 scores | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 scores | cc |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 room | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 room | det |
| 33 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 room | amod |
| 34 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 scores | obl |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 scores | cop |
| 36 | scores | score | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 dead | parataxis |
| 37 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 38 bleached | mark |
| 38 | bleached | bleach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 scores | acl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 skeletons | cc |
| 40 | ghastly | ghastly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 skeletons | amod |
| 41 | skeletons | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 bleached | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | this room; here; there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through room=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | come | past | lot | this room not said here | to another | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location room=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | this room | of gaunt; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | starve | gerund | women | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | scores | the next room | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | bleach | participle | scores not said here | ghastly skeletons conj | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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