The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Stone-moving Song, sentence 1
THE Horned Toad is also a famous musician--a sort of Pueblo Orpheus, whose song charms the very stones and trees.
Who acts: Horned Toad, song · What happens: be, charm, sort · To what, where: famous musician, stones, Pueblo
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Stone-moving Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Horned Toad, song), 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 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Toad | det |
| 2 | Horned | horned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Toad | amod |
| 3 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 musician | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 musician | cop |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 musician | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 musician | det |
| 7 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 musician | amod |
| 8 | musician | musician | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 sort | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sort | det |
| 11 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 musician | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Pueblo | case |
| 13 | Pueblo | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sort | nmod |
| 14 | Orpheus | Orpheus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Pueblo | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 charms | punct |
| 16 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 17 song | nmod:poss |
| 17 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 charms | nsubj |
| 18 | charms | charm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 musician | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stones | det |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 stones | advmod |
| 21 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 charms | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 trees | cc |
| 23 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stones | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 musician | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Horned Toad | a famous musician and a sort of Pueblo | a sort of Pueblo conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | charm | present | song | the stones and trees | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stone=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | sort | Pueblo | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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