The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 87
But there again it was the same, and again they ran many moons till they came to the Trues of the Center, who live here in Isleta.
Who acts: chéer, Trues · What happens: be, run, come, live · To what, where: many moons, Trues, Isleta
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 (chéer, Trues), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 same | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 same | expl |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 same | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 same | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 same | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 same | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ran | cc |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 ran | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ran | nsubj |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 same | parataxis |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 moons | amod |
| 14 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ran | obj |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 came | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ran | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Trues | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Trues | det |
| 20 | Trues | true | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 came | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Center | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Center | det |
| 23 | Center | Center | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Trues | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 live | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 live | nsubj |
| 26 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Trues | acl:relcl |
| 27 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 live | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Isleta | case |
| 29 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 live | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 same | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | chéer | there | again | same property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | run | past | Trues = true | many moons | again | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moon=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | come | past | Trues = true | the Trues of the Center | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to true=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | live | present | the Trues of the Center | Isleta; here | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in isleta=Location |
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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