The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 13
This old usage is now reversed, and it is the women who weave, except in the pueblos of Moqui.
Who acts: usage, women · What happens: reverse, be, weave · To what, where: old usage, women
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 (usage, women), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 usage | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 usage | amod |
| 3 | usage | usage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reversed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 reversed | aux:pass |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 reversed | advmod |
| 6 | reversed | reverse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 women | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 women | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 women | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 women | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 women | det |
| 12 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 reversed | parataxis |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 weave | nsubj |
| 14 | weave | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 women | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pueblos | punct |
| 16 | except | except | ADP | _ | 19 pueblos | case |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 pueblos | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pueblos | det |
| 19 | pueblos | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 weave | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Moqui | case |
| 21 | Moqui | Moqui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 pueblos | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reversed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reverse | present · passive | this old usage | now | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | usage | the women | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | weave | present | the women | except the pueblos of Moqui | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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