The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 57
A Mexican who owned a large and very fleet-footed burro, challenged a young Indian of Acoma to a ten-mile race.
Who acts: Mexican · What happens: own, challenge · To what, where: large footed burro
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 (Mexican), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Mexican | det |
| 2 | Mexican | Mexican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 owned | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 owned | nsubj |
| 4 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 burro | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 burro | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fleet | cc |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 fleet | advmod |
| 9 | fleet | fleet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 large | conj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 fleet | punct |
| 11 | footed | footed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 burro | amod |
| 12 | burro | burro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 owned | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 challenged | punct |
| 14 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 owned | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Indian | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Indian | amod |
| 17 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 challenged | xcomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Acoma | case |
| 19 | Acoma | Acoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Indian | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 race | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 race | det |
| 22 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 mile | nummod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 ten | punct |
| 24 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 race | compound |
| 25 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 challenged | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 owned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own | past | a Mexican | a large footed burro | who nsubj | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot burro=Theme | |||
| 2 | challenge | past | a Mexican not said here | to a mile race; indian property | tree rules |
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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