The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 70
[100] The evening was cool, and they built a big fire in the fireplace.
Who acts: Máw · What happens: be, build · To what, where: big fire, fireplace
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 (Máw), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 100 | punct |
| 2 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 cool | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 100 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 evening | det |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cool | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cool | cop |
| 7 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 built | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 built | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 built | nsubj |
| 11 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cool | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fire | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fire | amod |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 built | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 fireplace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fireplace | det |
| 17 | fireplace | fireplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 built | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cool | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | evening | 100 obl; cool property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build | past | Máw | a big fire | the fireplace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product |
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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