The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 9
A weaver by trade,[32] his rude loom hung from the dark rafters of his room; and in it he wove the strong black _mantas_ which are the dress of Pueblo women to this day.
Who acts: weaver · What happens: hang, weave, be · To what, where: rude loom, dark rafters, strong black _ mantas, room, dress
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 (weaver), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 weaver | det |
| 2 | weaver | weaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 loom | nsubj |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 trade | case |
| 4 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 weaver | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 32 | punct |
| 6 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 7 32 | punct |
| 7 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 weaver | appos |
| 8 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 7 32 | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 loom | nmod:poss |
| 10 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 loom | amod |
| 11 | loom | loom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 loom | acl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 rafters | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rafters | det |
| 15 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rafters | amod |
| 16 | rafters | rafter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hung | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 room | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 room | nmod:poss |
| 19 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rafters | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 wove | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wove | cc |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 wove | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 wove | nsubj |
| 25 | wove | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 loom | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 mantas | det |
| 27 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 mantas | amod |
| 28 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 mantas | amod |
| 29 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 mantas | compound |
| 30 | mantas | manta | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 wove | obj |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 dress | punct |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 dress | nsubj |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 dress | cop |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 dress | det |
| 35 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wove | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 women | case |
| 37 | Pueblo | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 women | compound |
| 38 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 dress | nmod |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 day | case |
| 40 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 day | det |
| 41 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wove | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 loom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | participle | weaver's rude loom a weaver by trade not said here | the dark rafters of weaver's room | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | weave | past | weaver | the strong black _ mantas | room | day | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manta=Product | ||
| 3 | is a | present | the dress | of Pueblo women; which nsubj | 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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