The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 65
Having steered them across the _acequia_ and up the sand-hills to the beginning of the plain, he climbed to the top of the _Kú-mai_ to watch them through the day--as has been the custom of Isleta herders from time immemorial.
Who acts: Desiderio · What happens: have, steer, climb, watch, be, begin · To what, where: eyes, acequia, top, plain
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 (Desiderio), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 steered | reparandum |
| 2 | steered | steer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 steered | obj |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 acequia | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 acequia | det |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 acequia | punct |
| 7 | acequia | acequia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 steered | obl |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 acequia | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hills | cc |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 hills | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hills | det |
| 12 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hills | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 sand | punct |
| 14 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 acequia | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 beginning | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beginning | det |
| 17 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hills | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 plain | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 plain | det |
| 20 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beginning | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 climbed | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 climbed | nsubj |
| 23 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 steered | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 top | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 top | det |
| 26 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 climbed | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Kú | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Kú | det |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 Kú | punct |
| 30 | Kú | Kú | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 top | appos |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Kú | punct |
| 32 | mai | mai | X | Foreign=Yes | 30 Kú | dep |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 climbed | punct |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 watch | mark |
| 35 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 climbed | advcl |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 watch | obj |
| 37 | through | through | ADP | _ | 39 day | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 day | det |
| 39 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 watch | obl |
| 40 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 45 custom | punct |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 45 custom | case |
| 42 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 custom | aux |
| 43 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 45 custom | cop |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 custom | det |
| 45 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 watch | parataxis |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 herders | case |
| 47 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 herders | compound |
| 48 | herders | herder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 custom | nmod |
| 49 | from | from | ADP | _ | 50 time | case |
| 50 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 herders | nmod |
| 51 | immemorial | immemorial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 time | amod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 steered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | steer | past | eyes = eye | the acequia and the sand hills to the beginning of the plain | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme across acequia=Destination | ||||
| 3 | climb | past | Desiderio | the top | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination | ||||
| 4 | watch | to-infinitive | Desiderio not said here | eyes = eye | day | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | is | present · perfect | as the custom; of Isleta herders from time | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | begin | the plain | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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