The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 66
In wandering over the rocky top of the peak, he came to a ledge of rocks on the southeast spur of the hill; and there found a fissure, at one end of which was a hole as large as a man’s head.
Who acts: Desiderio, hole · What happens: wonder, come, find, be, spur · To what, where: rocky top, ledge, fissure, one end, hill
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, hole), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 2 wandering | mark |
| 2 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 came | advcl |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 top | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 top | det |
| 5 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 top | amod |
| 6 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wandering | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 peak | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 peak | det |
| 9 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 top | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 wandering | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 ledge | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ledge | det |
| 15 | ledge | ledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 rocks | case |
| 17 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ledge | nmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 spur | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 spur | det |
| 20 | southeast | southeast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 spur | amod |
| 21 | spur | spur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rocks | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 hill | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hill | det |
| 24 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spur | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 found | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 there | cc |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 found | advmod |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 fissure | det |
| 30 | fissure | fissure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 found | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 end | punct |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 end | case |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 end | nummod |
| 34 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 found | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 which | case |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 large | obl |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 large | cop |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 hole | det |
| 39 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 large | nsubj |
| 40 | as | as | ADV | _ | 41 large | advmod |
| 41 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 end | amod |
| 42 | as | as | ADP | _ | 46 head | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 man | det |
| 44 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 head | nmod:poss |
| 45 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 44 man | case |
| 46 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 large | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | Desiderio not said here | the rocky top of the peak | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Desiderio | a ledge of rocks on the southeast spur of the hill | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ledge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Desiderio not said here | a fissure | there | at one end | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent fissure=Theme at end=Asset | ||
| 4 | is | past | a hole | of one end | as a man's head; large property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | spur | the hill | nom spur «communication 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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