The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 119
[56] This story seems to be one of the myths about the Hero Twin Brothers, the children of the Sun. They are, next to Sun-Father and Moon-Mother, the chief deities of all the southwestern tribes.
Who acts: story, children · What happens: seem, be · To what, where: 56, one
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-seek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 56 | punct |
| 2 | 56 | 56 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 seems | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 56 | punct |
| 4 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seems | nsubj |
| 6 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 one | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 one | cop |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 seems | xcomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 myths | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 myths | det |
| 12 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 Brothers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Brothers | det |
| 15 | Hero | Hero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Brothers | compound |
| 16 | Twin | Twin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Brothers | compound |
| 17 | Brothers | Brother | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 myths | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 children | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 children | det |
| 20 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 are | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Sun. | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Sun. | det |
| 23 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 children | nmod |
| 24 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 are | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 seems | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Father | punct |
| 27 | next | next | ADV | _ | 31 Father | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Father | case |
| 29 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Father | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Sun | punct |
| 31 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 seems | parataxis |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Moon | cc |
| 33 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Father | conj |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Mother | punct |
| 35 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Father | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 deities | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 deities | det |
| 38 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 deities | amod |
| 39 | deities | deity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 Father | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 tribes | case |
| 41 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 tribes | det:predet |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 tribes | det |
| 43 | southwestern | southwestern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 tribes | amod |
| 44 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 deities | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | this story | 56 | Sun Father and Moon and Mother and the chief deities of all southwestern tribes parataxis | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | this story not said here | one | of the myths about the Hero Twin Brothers | tree rules | |||
| 3 | does | present | the children of the Sun. | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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