The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 15
The _T’ai-kár-nin_ had no town, but dwelt in caves of the lava mountain a couple of miles west of this village--the _Kú-mai_ hill.
Who acts: T’ai, kár nin _ · What happens: _, have, dwell · To what, where: town, caves
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (T’ai, kár nin _), 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 | 8 _ | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 _ | punct |
| 3 | T’ai | T'ai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 _ | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 T’ai | punct |
| 5 | kár | kár | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 _ | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 kár | punct |
| 7 | nin | nin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 _ | compound |
| 8 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 town | det |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dwelt | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 dwelt | cc |
| 14 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 caves | case |
| 16 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dwelt | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 mountain | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mountain | det |
| 19 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mountain | compound |
| 20 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caves | nmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 couple | det |
| 22 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 west | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 miles | case |
| 24 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 couple | nmod |
| 25 | west | west | ADV | _ | 28 village | advmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 village | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 village | det |
| 28 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dwelt | obl |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 hill | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 hill | det |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 Kú | punct |
| 32 | Kú | Kú | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 hill | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 mai | punct |
| 34 | mai | mai | X | Foreign=Yes | 32 Kú | dep |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 Kú | punct |
| 36 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 village | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | T’ai | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | have | past | the kár nin _ | no town | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Patient | ||||
| 3 | dwell | past | the kár nin _ not said here | caves of the lava mountain | of this village the Kú hill | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location |
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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