The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 9
One day when she could stand the loneliness no longer, she decided to take a walk through the enormous house and look at the rooms which she had not seen.
Who acts: Truan · What happens: stand, decide, take, look, not see · To what, where: loneliness, walk, enormous house, rooms
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 (Truan), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 stand | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stand | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 stand | aux |
| 6 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 loneliness | det |
| 8 | loneliness | loneliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | obj |
| 9 | no | no | ADV | _ | 10 longer | advmod |
| 10 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 stand | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 decided | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 decided | nsubj |
| 13 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stand | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 decided | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 walk | det |
| 17 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 20 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 house | amod |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 look | cc |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 take | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 rooms | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 rooms | det |
| 26 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 look | obl |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 seen | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 seen | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 seen | advmod |
| 31 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 rooms | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | could | Truan | the loneliness | day | long property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loneliness=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | decide | past | Truan | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | Truan not said here | a walk | the enormous house | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme | |||
| 4 | look | infinitive | Truan not said here | at the rooms | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at room=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not see | past · perfect · passive | the rooms | Truan nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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