The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 60
Grandmother Reyes is unrolling the mattresses upon the floor; and with pleasant “good-nights” we scatter for our homes here and there in the quaint adobe village.
Who acts: Grandmother, we · What happens: unroll, scatter · To what, where: mattresses, quaint adobe village
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 Bear[17]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grandmother, we), 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 | Grandmother | Grandmother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 unrolling | nsubj |
| 2 | Reyes | Reyes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Grandmother | flat |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 unrolling | aux |
| 4 | unrolling | unroll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mattresses | det |
| 6 | mattresses | mattress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 unrolling | obj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 floor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 floor | det |
| 9 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mattresses | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 scatter | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 scatter | cc |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 nights | case |
| 13 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 nights | amod |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 nights | punct |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 nights | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 good | punct |
| 17 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 scatter | obl |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 nights | punct |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 scatter | nsubj |
| 20 | scatter | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 unrolling | parataxis |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 homes | case |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 homes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 scatter | obl |
| 24 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 scatter | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 there | cc |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 here | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 village | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 village | det |
| 29 | quaint | quaint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 village | amod |
| 30 | adobe | adobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 village | compound |
| 31 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 scatter | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unrolling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unroll | present · progressive | Grandmother | the mattresses | upon the floor | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mattress=Patient | |||
| 2 | scatter | present | we | the quaint adobe village; here; there | night | for our homes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in village=Destination |
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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