The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 32
Now, in those far-off days the Moon had not gone up into the sky to live, but was a maiden of Shee-eh-whíb-bak.
What happens: not go up, live, be · To what, where: sky, maiden
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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 gone | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 days | case |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 days | det |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 days | advmod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 far | punct |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 days | case |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gone | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Moon | det |
| 10 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 days | appos |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gone | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 gone | advmod |
| 13 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 gone | compound:prt |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 sky | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sky | det |
| 17 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gone | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 live | mark |
| 19 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sky | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 maiden | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 maiden | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 maiden | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 maiden | det |
| 24 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gone | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 bak | case |
| 26 | Shee | Shee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 bak | nsubj |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Shee | punct |
| 28 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bak | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 whíb | punct |
| 30 | whíb | whíb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bak | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 whíb | punct |
| 32 | bak | bak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 maiden | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go up | past · perfect | the sky | now; day | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | a maiden | of eh whíb bak Shee | 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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