The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 81
The Moon, you must know, has always been just as fond of looking at herself in the water as she is to this very day, and forgetting Nah-chu-rú-chu’s warning, she came to the brink, and looked down upon her fair reflection.
Who acts: Moon · What happens: know, have, be, look, forget, come · To what, where: water, chu rú, brink · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Moon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Moon | det |
| 2 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 know | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Moon | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 has | punct |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | ccomp |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 fond | advmod |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 fond | cop |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 fond | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 fond | case |
| 13 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 has | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 looking | mark |
| 15 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 fond | advcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 herself | case |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 looking | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looking | obl |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 day | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 day | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 day | cop |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 day | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 day | det |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 day | advmod |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looking | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 ’s | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 ’s | cc |
| 30 | forgetting | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 ’s | csubj |
| 31 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 35 rú | discourse |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 Nah | punct |
| 33 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rú | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 chu | punct |
| 35 | rú | rú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 forgetting | obj |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 chu | punct |
| 37 | chu | chu | X | Foreign=Yes | 35 rú | conj |
| 38 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | conj |
| 39 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 ’s | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 came | punct |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 came | nsubj |
| 42 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 ’s | parataxis |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 brink | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 brink | det |
| 45 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 came | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 looked | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 looked | cc |
| 48 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 came | conj |
| 49 | down | down | ADV | _ | 48 looked | advmod |
| 50 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 53 reflection | case |
| 51 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 reflection | nmod:poss |
| 52 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 reflection | amod |
| 53 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 looked | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | must | the Moon | you nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | participle | always, fond property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | look | gerund | the water | at Moon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at herself=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | Moon | to this day | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | forget | gerund | chu rú | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | come | past | Moon | the brink | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brink=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | look down | past | Moon not said here | upon Moon's fair reflection; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon reflection=Theme |
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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