The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 24
Once upon a time there was a Teé-wahn village on the other side of the mountain, and there lived a man and his wife who thought more of the future of their children than did the others.
Who acts: wahn village, man · What happens: be, live, think, do · To what, where: man, others · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wahn village, man), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 was | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 village | det |
| 8 | Teé | Teé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 wahn | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Teé | punct |
| 10 | wahn | wahn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 village | compound |
| 11 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 side | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 side | amod |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 village | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 mountain | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mountain | det |
| 18 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 side | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lived | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lived | cc |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 lived | expl |
| 22 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 was | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lived | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wife | cc |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wife | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 man | conj |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 thought | nsubj |
| 29 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 man | acl:relcl |
| 30 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 38 did | advmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 future | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 future | det |
| 33 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 more | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 children | case |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 children | nmod:poss |
| 36 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 future | nmod |
| 37 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 more | fixed |
| 38 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 thought | ccomp |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 others | det |
| 40 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 did | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a wahn village on the other side of the mountain | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past | a wahn village on the other side of the mountain not said here | a man and village's wife | there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | a man and village's wife | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | past | the others | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality |
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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