The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 8
So when we see a story in which any of these things are mentioned, we may know that it was made within the last three hundred and fifty years--or that an old story has been modified to include them.
Who acts: we · What happens: see, mention, know, make, modify, include · To what, where: story, any, old story, things · 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 (we), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 see | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 see | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 mentioned | obl |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 mentioned | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 things | det |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 any | nmod |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 mentioned | aux:pass |
| 14 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 story | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 know | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | aux |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 see | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 made | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 made | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 made | aux:pass |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 know | ccomp |
| 23 | within | within | ADP | _ | 30 years | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 years | det |
| 25 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 years | amod |
| 26 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 hundred | compound |
| 27 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 years | nummod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fifty | cc |
| 29 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 hundred | conj |
| 30 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 made | obl |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 39 modified | punct |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 modified | cc |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 modified | mark |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 story | det |
| 35 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 story | amod |
| 36 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 modified | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 modified | aux |
| 38 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 modified | aux:pass |
| 39 | modified | modify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 made | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 include | mark |
| 41 | include | include | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 modified | advcl |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 include | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | we | a story | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | mention speech: other | present · passive | any of this things | a story | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | know | may | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | make | past · passive | story | year | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 5 | modify | present · perfect · passive | a old story | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | include | to-infinitive | things = thing | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/17/8/