The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 6
It was the Spanish pioneers who gave all these animals to the Pueblos.
Who acts: country, Spanish pioneers · What happens: be, give · To what, where: Spanish pioneers, animals, Pueblos
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 (country, Spanish pioneers), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pioneers | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pioneers | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pioneers | det |
| 4 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pioneers | amod |
| 5 | pioneers | pioneer | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pioneers | acl:relcl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 animals | det:predet |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 animals | det |
| 10 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gave | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Pueblos | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Pueblos | det |
| 13 | Pueblos | Pueblos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pioneers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | country | the Spanish pioneers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the Spanish pioneers | all animals | the Pueblos | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Theme to pueblos=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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