The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 82
But when he came to the Bad Hill and looked down into the valley of the Rio Grande, his heart sank.
Who acts: chu, heart · What happens: come, look down, sink · To what, where: Bad Hill
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chu, heart), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Hill | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Hill | det |
| 7 | Bad | Bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Hill | compound |
| 8 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 looked | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 valley | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 valley | det |
| 14 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Grande | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Grande | det |
| 17 | Rio | Rio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Grande | compound |
| 18 | Grande | Grande | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 valley | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sank | punct |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 heart | nmod:poss |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sank | nsubj |
| 22 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | chu | the Bad Hill | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | look down | past | into the valley of the Rio Grande; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into valley=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sink | past | chu's heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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