The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 2
There was a big hollow tree there, and in it lived an old Woodpecker and his wife and children.
Who acts: big hollow tree · What happens: be, live · To what, where: old Woodpecker, tree
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 Woodpecker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big hollow tree), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tree | amod |
| 5 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tree | amod |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 was | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lived | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lived | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lived | obl |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | conj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Woodpecker | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Woodpecker | amod |
| 15 | Woodpecker | woodpecker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wife | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Woodpecker | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 children | cc |
| 20 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wife | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a big hollow tree | there; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past | a big hollow tree not said here | a old Woodpecker and family's wife and children | tree | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme woodpecker=Location |
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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