The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 69
From far down in the bowels of the mountain came a strange roaring, as of a heavy wind.
What happens: come · To what, where: strange roaring
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: 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 far | case |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 came | obl |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 far | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 bowels | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bowels | det |
| 6 | bowels | bowel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 far | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mountain | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountain | det |
| 9 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bowels | nmod |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 roaring | det |
| 12 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 roaring | amod |
| 13 | roaring | roaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wind | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 19 wind | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 as | fixed |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 wind | det |
| 18 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wind | amod |
| 19 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a strange roaring | as a heavy wind | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location roaring=Theme |
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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