The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 1

AMONG the principal heroes of the Tée-wahn folk-lore, I hear of none more frequently in the winter story-tellings to which my aboriginal neighbors admit me, than the mighty Nah-chu-rú-chu.

Who acts: I, aboriginal neighbors · What happens: hear, admit · To what, where: winter story tellings, me

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, aboriginal neighbors), 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	AMONG	among	ADP	_	4 heroes	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 heroes	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heroes	amod
4	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hear	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	12 lore	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lore	det
7	Tée	Tée	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 lore	nsubj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Tée	punct
9	wahn	wahn	X	Foreign=Yes	12 lore	nsubj
10	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lore	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 folk	punct
12	lore	lore	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heroes	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heroes	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 hear	nsubj
15	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 none	case
17	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	15 hear	obl
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 frequently	advmod
19	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	15 hear	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	25 tellings	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tellings	det
22	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tellings	compound
23	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tellings	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 story	punct
25	tellings	telling	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hear	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 admit	obl
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 neighbors	nmod:poss
29	aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 neighbors	amod
30	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 admit	nsubj
31	admit	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 tellings	acl:relcl
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 admit	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 chu	punct
34	than	than	ADP	_	43 chu	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 chu	det
36	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 chu	amod
37	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	43 chu	discourse
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 Nah	punct
39	chu	chu	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 rú	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 chu	punct
41	rú	rú	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 chu	nmod:desc
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 chu	punct
43	chu	chu	X	Foreign=Yes	15 hear	dep
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	I			the winter story tellings		among the principal heroes of the folk lore Tée; of none; frequently property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of none=Stimulus
2	admit speech: other	present	my aboriginal neighbors	me	the winter story tellings				vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Topic to which=Recipient

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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 1

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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 1