The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 1
AND do you know why it is that the Moon has but one eye?
Who acts: you, it · What happens: know, be · 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 Mother Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, it), 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 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 know | cc |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 has | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 has | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 has | cop |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 has | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Moon | det |
| 10 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 has | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | ccomp |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 eye | cc |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 eye | nummod |
| 14 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 has | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | present | it | the Moon nsubj; one eye obj; have property | 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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