The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 46
It is, indeed, one of the most characteristic and instructive examples of the manner in which a folk-story becomes changed.
Who acts: Toad · What happens: be, change, exemplify · To what, where: one, folk story, manner
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toad), 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 | 6 one | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 one | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 characteristic | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 characteristic | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 characteristic | amod |
| 10 | characteristic | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 examples | cc |
| 12 | instructive | instructive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 examples | amod |
| 13 | examples | example | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 characteristic | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 manner | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 manner | det |
| 16 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 examples | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 changed | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 story | det |
| 20 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 story | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 folk | punct |
| 22 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 changed | nsubj |
| 23 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 changed | aux:pass |
| 24 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 manner | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Toad | one | of the most characteristic and instructive examples of the manner; indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | change | present · passive | a folk story | the manner | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | exemplify | the manner | nom example «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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