The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 6
From them began the world and all that is in it; and all their children were strong and good.
Who acts: Trues, that, children · What happens: begin, be · To what, where: world
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 (Trues, that, children), 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 | From | from | SCONJ | _ | 3 began | mark |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 world | det |
| 5 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 it | cc |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 it | det:predet |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 it | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 it | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 world | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 strong | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 all | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 children | det:predet |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 children | nmod:poss |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 strong | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 strong | cop |
| 18 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 began | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 good | cc |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 strong | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Trues = true | the world | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | present | that | world | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Trues's children | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Trues's children not said here | 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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