The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 99
[26] Like a roll of tape.
What happens: roll · To what, where: 26, tape
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: 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 26 | punct |
| 2 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 26 | punct |
| 4 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 6 roll | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 roll | det |
| 6 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 26 | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tape | case |
| 8 | tape | tape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 roll | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 26 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | roll | tape | nom roll «event transitive»: of=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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