The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 11
The folk-lore and the very name of the town fully prove to me that its site has not changed in historic times.
Who acts: folk lore, site · What happens: prove, not change, name · To what, where: me, town
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 (folk lore, site), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lore | det |
| 2 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lore | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 folk | punct |
| 4 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prove | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 name | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 name | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 name | advmod |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lore | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | nmod |
| 12 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 13 prove | advmod |
| 13 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 prove | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 changed | mark |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 site | nmod:poss |
| 18 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 changed | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 changed | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 changed | advmod |
| 21 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 prove | ccomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 times | case |
| 23 | historic | historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 times | amod |
| 24 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 changed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 prove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | infinitive | the folk lore and the name of the town | me | fully property | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to i=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | not change | present · perfect | lore's site | time | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | name | the town | nom name «communication 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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