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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

advmodcasenmod:possamodoblnsubjcasedetamodobldetconjdet:predetdetobladvmodpunctccnsubjadvmodconjadvmoddetobjcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubj:passaclcaseoblcasedetoblcasedetnmodadvmodcaseoblpunctrootDeepADVinADPitsPRONgloomyADJbowelsNOUNtheyPRONhuddledVERBonADPtheDETwhiteADJsandNOUNwhichDETfloorsNOUNallDETtheDETcavesNOUNthereADV;PUNCTandCCONJcranniesNOUNoverheadADVcarriedVERBawayADVtheDETsmokeNOUNfromADPtheirPRONfiresNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONcurledVERBfromADPcrevicesNOUNatADPtheDETtopNOUNofADPtheDETpeakNOUNfarADVaboveADPthemPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1DeepdeepADV_7 huddledadvmod
2ininADP_5 bowelscase
3itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 bowelsnmod:poss
4gloomygloomyADJDegree=Pos5 bowelsamod
5bowelsbowelNOUNNumber=Plur1 Deepobl
6theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs7 huddlednsubj
7huddledhuddleVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8ononADP_11 sandcase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 sanddet
10whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos11 sandamod
11sandsandNOUNNumber=Sing7 huddledobl
12whichwhichDETPronType=Int13 floorsdet
13floorsfloorNOUNNumber=Plur11 sandconj
14allallDETPronType=Tot16 cavesdet:predet
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 cavesdet
16cavescaveNOUNNumber=Plur7 huddledobl
17therethereADVPronType=Dem16 cavesadvmod
18;;PUNCT_22 carriedpunct
19andandCCONJ_20 cranniescc
20cranniescrannyNOUNNumber=Plur22 carriednsubj
21overheadoverheadADV_20 cranniesadvmod
22carriedcarryVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 huddledconj
23awayawayADV_22 carriedadvmod
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 smokedet
25smokesmokeNOUNNumber=Sing22 carriedobj
26fromfromADP_28 firescase
27theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 firesnmod:poss
28firesfireNOUNNumber=Plur22 carriedobl
29,,PUNCT_31 curledpunct
30whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel31 curlednsubj:pass
31curledcurlVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass28 firesacl
32fromfromADP_33 crevicescase
33crevicescreviceNOUNNumber=Plur31 curledobl
34atatADP_36 topcase
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 topdet
36toptopNOUNNumber=Sing31 curledobl
37ofofADP_39 peakcase
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 peakdet
39peakpeakNOUNNumber=Sing36 topnmod
40farfarADVDegree=Pos31 curledadvmod
41aboveaboveADP_42 themcase
42themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs40 farobl
43..PUNCT_7 huddledpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1huddlepastbowels = bowelall cavesthe white sand and which floorsdeep propertyvn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sand=Location
2carry awaypastcranniesthe smokecrannies's firesaway propertyvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent smoke=Theme from fire=Initial_Location
3curlparticiple · passivecrannies's firescrevicesat the top of the peak; far propertyvn coil-9.6-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme from crevice=Destination
4firecrannies = crannynom 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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