The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Crows, sentence 2
A little out into the plain stood a very large tree, with much sand under it.
What happens: stand · To what, where: little, plain
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Crows. 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 little | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stood | obl |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 little | compound:prt |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 plain | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 plain | det |
| 6 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 large | advmod |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tree | amod |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sand | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 sand | case |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sand | amod |
| 15 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sand | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a little | the plain | with much sand under sand; a large tree obj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus |
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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