The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 13
It is called Mah-pah-róo, the Mother, and is the most beautiful article a Pueblo ever fashioned.
What happens: call, be · To what, where: implement, beautiful article · 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: 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 | 3 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | Mah | Mah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mah | punct |
| 6 | pah | pah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 róo | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 pah | punct |
| 8 | róo | róo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Mother | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Mother | det |
| 11 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 róo | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 article | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 article | cc |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 article | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 article | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 beautiful | advmod |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 article | amod |
| 18 | article | article | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Pueblo | det |
| 20 | Pueblo | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 article | appos |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 fashioned | advmod |
| 22 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Pueblo | amod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | implement | Mah xcomp; pah róo and the Mother xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the beautiful article | a Pueblo appos | 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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