The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 12
[32] In the ancient days, weaving was practised only by the men, among the Pueblos.
What happens: weave, practise · To what, where: 32
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: 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 32 | punct |
| 2 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 practised | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 32 | punct |
| 4 | In | in | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 days | det |
| 6 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 days | amod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 32 | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 weaving | punct |
| 9 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 32 | conj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 practised | aux:pass |
| 11 | practised | practise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 men | advmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 men | det |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 practised | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Pueblos | punct |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 Pueblos | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Pueblos | det |
| 19 | Pueblos | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 practised | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 practised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | practise | past · passive | 32 in the ancient days | the men obj; the Pueblos advcl | tree rules |
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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