The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 2
To this day his name, which means “The Bluish Light of Dawn,” is deeply revered by the quaint people who claim him as one of their forefathers.
Who acts: name, quaint people, Tée · What happens: mean, revere, claim, name · To what, where: Bluish Light, name, Tée
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 (name, quaint people, Tée), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 revered | obl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 revered | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 means | nsubj |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 name | acl:relcl |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Light | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Light | det |
| 11 | Bluish | bluish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Light | amod |
| 12 | Light | Light | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Dawn | case |
| 14 | Dawn | Dawn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Light | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Light | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Light | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 revered | aux:pass |
| 18 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 19 revered | advmod |
| 19 | revered | revere | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 people | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 people | det |
| 22 | quaint | quaint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 people | amod |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 revered | obl |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 claim | nsubj |
| 25 | claim | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 people | acl:relcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 claim | obj |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 one | case |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 claim | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 forefathers | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 forefathers | nmod:poss |
| 31 | forefathers | forefather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 one | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 revered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Tée's name | the Bluish Light of Dawn | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Topic | ||||
| 2 | revere | present · passive | the quaint people | Tée's name | day | deeply property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | claim speech: other | present | the quaint people | Tée | as one of people's forefathers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 4 | name | Tée | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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