The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 18
In the First Days, when the people had broken through the crust of the earth, and had come up out of their dark prison, underground, and crossed Shee-p’ah-póon, the great Black Lake of Tears, they came to the shore on this side.
Who acts: people · What happens: break, come up, cross, come · To what, where: crust, dark prison, Shee p’ah póon, side
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Doctor Field-mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | ADP | _ | 4 Days | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Days | det |
| 3 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 Days | amod |
| 4 | Days | Day | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 broken | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 broken | punct |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 broken | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 broken | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 broken | aux |
| 10 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 crust | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crust | det |
| 13 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 broken | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 earth | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 earth | det |
| 16 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crust | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 come | cc |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 broken | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 come | compound:prt |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 prison | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 prison | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 prison | nmod:poss |
| 25 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 prison | amod |
| 26 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 underground | punct |
| 28 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 crossed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 crossed | cc |
| 31 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 broken | parataxis |
| 32 | Shee | Shee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 póon | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 Shee | punct |
| 34 | p’ah | p'ah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 póon | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 p’ah | punct |
| 36 | póon | póon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 crossed | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Lake | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Lake | det |
| 39 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 Lake | amod |
| 40 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Lake | compound |
| 41 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 póon | nmod |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Tears | case |
| 43 | Tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 Lake | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 came | punct |
| 45 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 came | nsubj |
| 46 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 crossed | conj |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 shore | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 shore | det |
| 49 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 came | obl |
| 50 | on | on | ADP | _ | 52 side | case |
| 51 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 52 side | det |
| 52 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 came | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past · perfect | the people | the crust of the earth | in the First Days | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in day=Location | |||
| 2 | come up | past · perfect | the people not said here | people's dark prison | underground property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out prison=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | cross | past | Shee p’ah póon the great Black Lake of Tears | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent póon=Patient | |||||
| 4 | come | past | people | this side | to the shore | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shore=Initial_Location |
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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