The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 22
It has nothing to do with the story; but is the prologue to inform the hearers that the story is about to open.
Who acts: t, hearers · What happens: have, do, be, inform, open · To what, where: nothing, prologue, hearers
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 (t, hearers), 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 | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 has | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 nothing | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 story | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 prologue | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 prologue | cc |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 prologue | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prologue | det |
| 13 | prologue | prologue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 inform | mark |
| 15 | inform | inform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 prologue | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hearers | det |
| 17 | hearers | hearer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 inform | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 about | nsubj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 story | det |
| 20 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 about | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 about | cop |
| 22 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hearers | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 open | mark |
| 24 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 about | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | t | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | t not said here | nothing not said here | with the story | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is a | present | the prologue | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | inform speech: other | to-infinitive | t not said here | the hearers | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hearer=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is | present | the hearers | the story nsubj; about property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | open | to-infinitive | the hearers not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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