The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 76

It is true that in this hill of bad repute there are several lava-caves, with floors of white sand blown in from the _llano_; and that in these caves there are a few human bones.

Who acts: pair, several lava caves · What happens: be, blow in · To what, where: hill, white sand, few human bones

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 (pair, several lava caves), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 are	mark
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hill	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 hill	det
7	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 are	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 repute	case
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 repute	amod
10	repute	repute	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hill	nmod
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 are	expl
12	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	advcl
13	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 caves	amod
14	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 caves	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 lava	punct
16	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 are	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 floors	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 floors	case
19	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 caves	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 sand	case
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sand	amod
22	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 floors	nmod
23	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 sand	acl
24	in	in	ADV	_	23 blown	advmod
25	from	from	ADP	_	28 llano	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 llano	det
27	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 llano	punct
28	llano	llano	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 blown	obl
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	23 blown	punct
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 bones	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 bones	cc
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 are	mark
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 caves	case
34	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 caves	det
35	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 are	obl
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 are	expl
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 bones	cop
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 bones	det
39	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 bones	amod
40	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 bones	amod
41	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	pair			true property	tree rules
2	does	present	several lava caves and floors of white sand		this hill of bad repute; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hill=Location
3	blow in	participle		white sand not said here		from the llano	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from llano=Co-Patient
4	is a	present	pair not said here	a few human bones			tree rules

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 76

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 76