The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 62
There was no other such housekeeper in all the pueblo as she, and no other hunter brought home so much buffalo-meat from the vast plains to the east, nor so many antelopes, and black-tailed deer, and jack-rabbits from the Manzanos as did Nah-chu-rú-chu.
Who acts: other such housekeeper, other hunter · What happens: be, bring, tail, do · To what, where: much buffalo meat, vast plains, chu rú
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 (other such housekeeper, other hunter), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 housekeeper | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 housekeeper | amod |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 housekeeper | amod |
| 6 | housekeeper | housekeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 pueblo | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 pueblo | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pueblo | det |
| 10 | pueblo | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 housekeeper | nmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 she | case |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pueblo | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 brought | cc |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 hunter | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hunter | amod |
| 17 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | nsubj |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | conj |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 brought | advmod |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 much | advmod |
| 21 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 meat | amod |
| 22 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 meat | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 buffalo | punct |
| 24 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 plains | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 plains | det |
| 27 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 plains | amod |
| 28 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 brought | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 east | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 east | det |
| 31 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 plains | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 antelopes | punct |
| 33 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 36 antelopes | cc |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 many | advmod |
| 35 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 antelopes | amod |
| 36 | antelopes | antelope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 was | parataxis |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 deer | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 deer | cc |
| 39 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 tailed | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 black | punct |
| 41 | tailed | tail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 deer | amod |
| 42 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 antelopes | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 rabbits | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 rabbits | cc |
| 45 | jack | jack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 rabbits | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 jack | punct |
| 47 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 antelopes | conj |
| 48 | from | from | ADP | _ | 50 Manzanos | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 Manzanos | det |
| 50 | Manzanos | Manzanos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 rabbits | nmod |
| 51 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 52 did | mark |
| 52 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 antelopes | advcl |
| 53 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 57 rú | discourse |
| 54 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 53 Nah | punct |
| 55 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 rú | compound |
| 56 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 55 chu | punct |
| 57 | rú | rú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 did | obj |
| 58 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 59 chu | punct |
| 59 | chu | chu | X | Foreign=Yes | 57 rú | conj |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no other such housekeeper in all pueblo as wife | there | many antelopes and tailed deer and jack rabbits from the Manzanos parataxis | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | past | no other hunter | much buffalo meat | the vast plains to the east | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent meat=Theme from plain=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | tail | participle | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | do | past | no other such housekeeper in all pueblo as wife not said here | chu rú | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rú=Eventuality |
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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