The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 54

From chin to hair-roots, from ear to ear, was such a crowded, tangled, inextricable maze of furrows and cross-harrow lines as I firmly believe never dwelt together on any other one human face.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, believe, not dwell · To what, where: crowded tangled inextricable maze, chin, other one human face · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 chin	case
2	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 maze	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 roots	case
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roots	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 hair	punct
6	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chin	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ear	punct
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 ear	case
9	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roots	appos
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 ear	case
11	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ear	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 chin	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 maze	cop
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	21 maze	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 maze	det
16	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 maze	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 crowded	punct
18	tangled	tangled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 maze	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tangled	punct
20	inextricable	inextricable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 maze	amod
21	maze	maze	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 furrows	case
23	furrows	furrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 maze	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 lines	cc
25	cross-harrow	cross-harrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lines	compound
26	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 furrows	conj
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 believe	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 believe	nsubj
29	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	30 believe	advmod
30	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 maze	acl:relcl
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 dwelt	advmod
32	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 believe	ccomp
33	together	together	ADV	_	32 dwelt	advmod
34	on	on	ADP	_	39 face	case
35	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	39 face	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 face	amod
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 face	nummod
38	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 face	amod
39	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dwelt	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 maze	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		such crowded tangled inextricable maze	chin to hair roots	of furrows and cross-harrow lines	tree rules
2	believe	present	I	such crowded tangled inextricable maze not said here		firmly property	tree rules
3	not dwell	participle			any other one human face	together property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on face=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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 54

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 54