The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 71
Hunting around awhile, he found in the fissures of the rocks some ancient buckskin masks--the very ones worn by the Ogres, of course.
Who acts: Desiderio · What happens: hunt around, find, wear · To what, where: fissures, ones
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 | Hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 found | advcl |
| 2 | around | around | ADV | _ | 1 Hunting | advmod |
| 3 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 1 Hunting | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hunting | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 fissures | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fissures | det |
| 9 | fissures | fissure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 rocks | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rocks | det |
| 12 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fissures | nmod |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 masks | det |
| 14 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 masks | amod |
| 15 | buckskin | buckskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 masks | compound |
| 16 | masks | mask | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rocks | conj |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 ones | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ones | det |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 ones | advmod |
| 20 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rocks | conj |
| 21 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 ones | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 Ogres | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Ogres | det |
| 24 | Ogres | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 worn | obl:agent |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 of | punct |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 rocks | nmod |
| 27 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 of | fixed |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt around | gerund | Desiderio not said here | around, awhile property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Desiderio | the fissures of the rocks and some ancient buckskin masks and the ones | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wear | participle | the ones not said here | the Ogres obl:agent | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
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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