The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 4
As the door opened to admit stalwart Francisco to the big flickering room where we were all sitting in silence, the long, shrill wail of a Coyote, away up on the Accursed Hill, blew in after him on the boisterous March wind.
Who acts: we, Coyote · What happens: open, admit, sit, accurs, blow in, wail · To what, where: stalwart, big flickering room, silence, boisterous wind
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 (we, Coyote), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 door | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obl |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 admit | mark |
| 6 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 opened | xcomp |
| 7 | stalwart | stalwart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 admit | obj |
| 8 | Francisco | Francisco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stalwart | appos |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 room | det |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 room | amod |
| 12 | flickering | flickering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 room | compound |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 admit | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 sitting | advmod |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 sitting | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sitting | aux |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 sitting | advmod |
| 18 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 room | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 silence | case |
| 20 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sitting | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 wail | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wail | det |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wail | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 long | punct |
| 25 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wail | amod |
| 26 | wail | wail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sitting | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Coyote | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 Coyote | det |
| 29 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 wail | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 away | punct |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 wail | advmod |
| 32 | up | up | ADV | _ | 31 away | advmod |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 Hill | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Hill | det |
| 35 | Accursed | accurs | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 Hill | amod |
| 36 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 away | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 blew | punct |
| 38 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADV | _ | 38 blew | advmod |
| 40 | after | after | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 blew | obl |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 wind | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 wind | det |
| 44 | boisterous | boisterous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 wind | amod |
| 45 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 wind | nmod:unmarked |
| 46 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 blew | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | as the door | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | admit speech: other | to-infinitive | stalwart | the big flickering room | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent stalwart=Topic to room=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | sit | past · progressive | we | silence | the long shrill wail of a Coyote conj; all property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location | |||
| 4 | accurs | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | blow in | past | the boisterous wind March | after Coyote | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | wail | a Coyote | nom wail «communication intransitive»: of=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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