The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 6
It is a thoroughly characteristic leaf from the legendary lore of the Southwest.
Who acts: One · What happens: be · To what, where: thoroughly characteristic leaf, legendary lore
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 (One), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 leaf | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 leaf | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 leaf | det |
| 4 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 leaf | amod |
| 5 | characteristic | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaf | compound |
| 6 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 lore | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lore | det |
| 9 | legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lore | amod |
| 10 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaf | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Southwest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Southwest | det |
| 13 | Southwest | Southwest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lore | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 leaf | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | One | a thoroughly characteristic leaf | the legendary lore of the Southwest | 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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