The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 18
The most persistent of his admirers were two sisters who were called _Ee-eh-chóo-ri-ch’áhm-nin_--the Yellow-Corn-Maidens.
Who acts: admirers · What happens: be, call · To what, where: two sisters · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (admirers), 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 | 3 persistent | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 persistent | advmod |
| 3 | persistent | persistent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sisters | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 admirers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | admirers | admirer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sisters | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sisters | cop |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 sisters | nummod |
| 9 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 persistent | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 called | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 called | aux:pass |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sisters | acl:relcl |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 chóo | punct |
| 14 | Ee | ee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chóo | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ee | punct |
| 16 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chóo | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 chóo | punct |
| 18 | chóo | chóo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 persistent | appos |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 ri | punct |
| 20 | ri | RI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 chóo | appos |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 ri | punct |
| 22 | ch’áhm | ch'áhm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chóo | conj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 ch’áhm | punct |
| 24 | nin | nin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ch’áhm | conj |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 chóo | punct |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 Maidens | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Maidens | det |
| 28 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Maidens | amod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Yellow | punct |
| 30 | Corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Maidens | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Corn | punct |
| 32 | Maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 persistent | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 persistent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Moqui's admirers | of two sisters | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | past · passive | two sisters | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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