The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 77
After traveling a long way in the dark, they came to a huge room in which corn and melons and pumpkins were growing abundantly.
Who acts: Twins, corn · What happens: travel, come, grow · To what, where: long way, dark, huge room
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 (Twins, corn), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 traveling | mark |
| 2 | traveling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 came | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 traveling | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 dark | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dark | det |
| 8 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 traveling | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 traveling | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 room | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 room | det |
| 14 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 room | amod |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 18 corn | det |
| 18 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 growing | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 melons | cc |
| 20 | melons | melon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 corn | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 pumpkins | cc |
| 22 | pumpkins | pumpkin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 corn | conj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 growing | aux |
| 24 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 room | acl:relcl |
| 25 | abundantly | abundantly | ADV | _ | 24 growing | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | gerund | Twins = twin not said here | a long way | the dark | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | come | past | Twins = twin | a huge room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | grow | past · progressive | which corn and melons and pumpkins | abundantly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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