The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 4
His wonderful feats and startling adventures--as still related by the believing Isleteños--would fill a volume.
Who acts: wonderful feats · What happens: startle, relate, believe, fill · To what, where: wonderful feats, volume
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 (wonderful feats), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 feats | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feats | amod |
| 3 | feats | feat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fill | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 adventures | cc |
| 5 | startling | startle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 adventures | amod |
| 6 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feats | conj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 related | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 related | mark |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 related | advmod |
| 10 | related | relate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 feats | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 Isleteños | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Isleteños | det |
| 13 | believing | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 Isleteños | amod |
| 14 | Isleteños | Isleteños | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 related | obl |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 feats | punct |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 fill | aux |
| 17 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 volume | det |
| 19 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fill | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 fill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | startle | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | relate | participle | name's wonderful feats and startling adventures not said here | still | by the believing Isleteños | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | believe | gerund | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | fill | would | name's wonderful feats and startling adventures | a volume | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent volume=Patient |
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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