The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 69
He had also picked up in the mountains a long, sharp splinter of quartz.
What happens: pick up · To what, where: ambition, mountains
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: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 picked | aux |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 picked | advmod |
| 4 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 picked | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mountains | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountains | det |
| 8 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 picked | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 splinter | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 splinter | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 long | punct |
| 12 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 splinter | amod |
| 13 | splinter | splinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 picked | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 quartz | case |
| 15 | quartz | quartz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 splinter | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past · perfect · passive | ambition | the mountains | a long sharp splinter of quartz obj | tree rules |
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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