The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 17
When you have shelled it and ground it, I will let you out”; and he showed her four great rooms piled from floor to ceiling with ears of corn.
Who acts: you, corn, I, hag · What happens: shell, ground, let out, show, pile · To what, where: corn, you, four great rooms, door, floor
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 (you, corn, I, hag), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 shelled | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 shelled | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shelled | aux |
| 4 | shelled | shell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shelled | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ground | cc |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shelled | obl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ground | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 let | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 let | aux |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 shelled | parataxis |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 let | compound:prt |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 showed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 showed | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 showed | nsubj |
| 19 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shelled | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 showed | iobj |
| 21 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 rooms | nummod |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rooms | amod |
| 23 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 showed | obj |
| 24 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 rooms | acl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 floor | case |
| 26 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 piled | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 ceiling | case |
| 28 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 piled | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 ears | case |
| 30 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 piled | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 corn | case |
| 32 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ears | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shell | present · perfect | you | corn | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination | ||||
| 2 | ground | corn | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | let out | future | I | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | show in a quote | past | hag | four great rooms | door | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient room=Topic | |||
| 5 | pile in a quote | participle | four great rooms not said here | floor | to ceiling; with ears of corn | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ear=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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