The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 45
Their bare faces were seen sometimes by hunters who encountered them on the _llano_, but never here in town.
Who acts: hunters · What happens: see, encounter · To what, where: bare faces, Ogres, llano
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 (hunters), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 faces | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 faces | amod |
| 3 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux:pass |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 seen | advmod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 hunters | case |
| 8 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seen | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 encountered | nsubj |
| 10 | encountered | encounter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hunters | acl:relcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 encountered | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 llano | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 llano | det |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 llano | punct |
| 15 | llano | llano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 encountered | obl |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 encountered | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 here | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 here | cc |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 here | advmod |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 seen | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 town | case |
| 22 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 here | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | hunters | Ogres's bare faces | here | never | sometimes property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | |
| 2 | encounter | past | hunters | Ogres = ogre | the llano | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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