The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 55
The boys gathered a big pile of wood, with which she built a roaring fire in the adobe oven outside the house.
Who acts: boys, woman · What happens: gather, build, roar · To what, where: big pile, roaring fire, adobe oven
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hero Twins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boys | det |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gathered | nsubj |
| 3 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pile | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pile | amod |
| 6 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gathered | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pile | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 built | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 built | obl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 built | nsubj |
| 13 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gathered | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 15 | roaring | roar | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 fire | amod |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 built | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 oven | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 oven | det |
| 19 | adobe | adobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 oven | compound |
| 20 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 built | obl |
| 21 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 oven | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | the boys | a big pile of wood | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pile=Theme | ||||
| 2 | build | past | woman | a roaring fire | the adobe oven outside the house | which obl | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fire=Theme with which=Source | ||
| 3 | roar | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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