The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 41
Once upon a time there lived in Isleta two boys who were cousins.
Who acts: two boys · What happens: live, be · To what, where: two boys, Isleta, cousins
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Maker of the Thunder-knives. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two boys), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 lived | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Isleta | case |
| 8 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 boys | nummod |
| 10 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 cousins | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cousins | cop |
| 13 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 boys | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | two boys | Isleta; there | time | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in isleta=Location | ||
| 2 | is a | past | two boys | cousins | 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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