The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 1
NEARLY every people has its own version of the race of the Hare and the Tortoise.
Who acts: people, Hare · What happens: have, race · To what, where: own version
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Race of the Tails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Hare), 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 | NEARLY | nearly | ADV | _ | 4 has | advmod |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 version | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 version | amod |
| 7 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 race | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 race | det |
| 10 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 version | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Hare | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Hare | det |
| 13 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 race | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Tortoise | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Tortoise | det |
| 16 | Tortoise | Tortoise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Hare | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | every people | its own version of the race of the Hare and the Tortoise | nearly property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Patient | |||
| 2 | race | the Hare and the Tortoise | nom race «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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