The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 56
In a case which I knew of, years ago, this folk-story seems to have given a hint to human racers.
Who acts: I, folk story · What happens: know, seem, give · To what, where: case, hint, human racers
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 (I, folk story), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 case | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 case | det |
| 3 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seems | obl |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 knew | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 knew | nsubj |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 case | acl:relcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 knew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 years | punct |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 knew | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 case | punct |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 story | det |
| 13 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 story | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 folk | punct |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seems | nsubj |
| 16 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 given | mark |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 given | aux |
| 19 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 seems | xcomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hint | det |
| 21 | hint | hint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 given | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 racers | case |
| 23 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 racers | amod |
| 24 | racers | racer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 given | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | I | a case | ago property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | seem | present | this folk story | a case | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive · perfect | this folk story not said here | a hint | human racers | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hint=Theme to racer=Recipient |
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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