The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 9
There is one of these comparatively modern nursery-tales which is designed to show the honesty and wisdom of the Burro.
Who acts: one · What happens: be, design, show · To what, where: modern nursery tales, honesty
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 (one), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 is | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tales | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 tales | det |
| 6 | comparatively | comparatively | ADV | _ | 7 modern | advmod |
| 7 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tales | amod |
| 8 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tales | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 nursery | punct |
| 10 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 designed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 designed | aux:pass |
| 13 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 tales | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 show | mark |
| 15 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 designed | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 honesty | det |
| 17 | honesty | honesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 show | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wisdom | cc |
| 19 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 honesty | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Burro | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Burro | det |
| 22 | Burro | Burro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 honesty | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | one of this modern nursery tales | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | design | present · passive | this modern nursery tales | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | the honesty of the Burro and wisdom | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent honesty=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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