The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 4
T’ah-hlá-a-hloon, or Big-ears, as the Tée-wahn call him, does not appear very often in their folk-lore--and for a very natural reason.
Who acts: Tée · What happens: call, not appear · To what, where: hlá, folk lore, hloon · 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, Honest Big-ears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tée), 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 | T’ah | T'ah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hloon | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 T’ah | punct |
| 3 | hlá | hlá | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hloon | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 hloon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hloon | det |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 a | punct |
| 7 | hloon | hloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ears | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 ears | cc |
| 10 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ears | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Big | punct |
| 12 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hloon | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 call | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 call | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Tée | det |
| 16 | Tée | Tée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 call | nsubj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Tée | punct |
| 18 | wahn | wahn | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 call | dep |
| 19 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hloon | parataxis |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 call | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 appear | punct |
| 22 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 appear | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 appear | advmod |
| 24 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 call | conj |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 often | advmod |
| 26 | often | often | ADV | _ | 31 lore | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 lore | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 lore | nmod:poss |
| 29 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lore | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 folk | punct |
| 31 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 appear | obl |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 38 reason | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 reason | cc |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 reason | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 reason | det |
| 36 | very | very | ADV | _ | 37 natural | advmod |
| 37 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 reason | amod |
| 38 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lore | acl:relcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hloon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | infinitive | the Tée | hlá | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not appear | present · do-support | the Tée not said here | ears's folk lore for a natural reason | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lore=Location |
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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