The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 21
Deep in its gloomy bowels they huddled on the white sand which floors all the caves there; and crannies overhead carried away the smoke from their fires, which curled from crevices at the top of the peak far above them.
Who acts: bowels, crannies · What happens: huddle, carry away, curl, fire · To what, where: caves, white sand, smoke, fires, crevices
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 (bowels, crannies), 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 | Deep | deep | ADV | _ | 7 huddled | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 bowels | case |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bowels | nmod:poss |
| 4 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bowels | amod |
| 5 | bowels | bowel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Deep | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 huddled | nsubj |
| 7 | huddled | huddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 sand | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sand | det |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sand | amod |
| 11 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 huddled | obl |
| 12 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 13 floors | det |
| 13 | floors | floor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sand | conj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 caves | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 caves | det |
| 16 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 huddled | obl |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 caves | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 carried | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 crannies | cc |
| 20 | crannies | cranny | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 carried | nsubj |
| 21 | overhead | overhead | ADV | _ | 20 crannies | advmod |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 huddled | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 carried | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 smoke | det |
| 25 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 fires | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 fires | nmod:poss |
| 28 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 carried | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 curled | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 curled | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 fires | acl |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 crevices | case |
| 33 | crevices | crevice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 curled | obl |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 top | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 top | det |
| 36 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 curled | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 peak | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 peak | det |
| 39 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 top | nmod |
| 40 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 curled | advmod |
| 41 | above | above | ADP | _ | 42 them | case |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 far | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 huddled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | huddle | past | bowels = bowel | all caves | the white sand and which floors | deep property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sand=Location | ||
| 2 | carry away | past | crannies | the smoke | crannies's fires | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent smoke=Theme from fire=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | curl | participle · passive | crannies's fires | crevices | at the top of the peak; far property | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme from crevice=Destination | |||
| 4 | fire | crannies = cranny | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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